Yes I'm not into indeterminism either, there's generally something
more interesting to do than draw on pseudo-random numbers.
I think of live coding as improvisation. I make sure things are live
by writing some new functions in advance of a live coding performance,
to create new space to explore. Otherwise it can just feel like going
through pre-practised 'licks'.
>From the original post:
> i myself use SC. i've spent a lot of time, though never near enough, poking around
> the docs and listserv and built a collection of tools that i can invoke with very
> abbreviated code. over time i've collected a little library of such tools and
> accompanying code snippets, and when i sit down to make noise, i'm mostly sitting
> in front of a page full of these snippets, "just" deciding which of them to execute
> when, and the only code i write in situ, if any, is in the form of small routines, made
> with copy and paste, that endlessly loop over a couple of these code snippets.
> is that live coding?
I wouldn't call it live coding. If you're not changing the code, by
combining and abstracting things, then it's not programming.
alex
On 10 August 2013 18:37, David Barbour <dmbarbour_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I hate the idea of requiring an "indeterminstic medium" for live coding. I
> favor deterministic programming languages.
>
> I do like the idea of hacking the instrument, or interpreting some actions
> outside of code. Leap seems like it might make a neat programmable
> instrument.
>
> On Aug 10, 2013 9:00 AM, "Konstantinos Vasilakos"
> <konstantinos.vasilakos_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >i use mostly found sounds -- some i'm not live coding? :)
>>
>> I think the question is: what are you using to interact with these sounds.
>> If you are manipulating them through a pre-designed digital
>> instrument/performing environment then you probably you wouldn't call it a
>> live coding process.
>> Live coding would be the act of interacting with the sounds through an
>> indeterministic medium to process those.
>>
>> Personally I love doing both, starting with the instrument and hack the
>> source code at some point. Then what it is ?
>> I don't know, maybe a hybrid ?
>>
>> Whatever works !
>>
>> Best
>> K.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/8/10 <alln4tural-list_at_gmx.net>
>>>
>>> At 08:07 10.08.2013 -0700, David Barbour wrote:
>>>
>>>> If it's your own sound, and if you didn't come up with it in advance...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> i use mostly found sounds -- some i'm not live coding? :)
>>>
>>> i could imagine making the argument, and not entirely rhetorical, that a
>>> turntablist who's mixing short passages from, say, 20 different LPs on the
>>> spot is doing a kind of live coding; at least, i could easily envision (less
>>> easily actually make) using my code snippets to control an array of twenty
>>> turntables to the same general effect. I think that would uncontroversially
>>> count as live coding; if you agree, but consider the turntablist not to be
>>> live coding .. then live coding is equal to "computer aided improvisation"?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best.
>>
>> K.
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