If it's your own sound, and if you didn't come up with it in advance...
Take a look at VSauce's "Will we ever run out of new music" for some
history on how the US court counts different music. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAcjV60RnRw
On Aug 10, 2013 7:06 AM, <alln4tural-list_at_gmx.net> wrote:
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>
> seeing as how quiet it's been here of late, i think i'll attempt to start
> a debate on one of those basic there-is-no-answer issues. of course, i may
> just be ignored.
>
>
> it's probably uncontroversial to declare that someone typing code into a
> field and having, say, SuperCollider execute it is doing live coding.
> conversely, someone clicking on mp3s in iTunes .. is not.
>
> but, anyone using one of the music programming languages is not starting
> at zero; at "best", s/he's using primitives someone else has defined and
> implemented.
> at worst, she's simply executing pre-packaged routines and musical systems
> someone else conceived and implemented, and possibly there's a GUI
> involved, so the "coding" takes the form of point and click.
>
> is that so far from deciding which mp3 to play in which order, for how
> long, in iTunes?
>
>
> 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.
>
> e.g. http://soundcloud.com/all-**n4tural-firehose/powers-of-**hang<http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural-firehose/powers-of-hang>
>
> is that live coding?
>
> if i took the time to learn enough about SC's gui functionality and
> programmed some windows and buttons to execute the snippets -- something
> i'm often wishing i'd do, but always finding myself postponing because it's
> more fun to make noise -- i'd be almost entirely pointing and clicking, to
> the same effect.
>
> would that still be live coding?
>
>
> love coding (*),
> eddi
> http://soundcloud.com/all-**n4tural <http://soundcloud.com/all-n4tural>
>
> (*) http://soundcloud.com/rukano/**batman-lovecoding<http://soundcloud.com/rukano/batman-lovecoding>
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