Re: [livecode] live coding in the theater

From: Fredrik Olofsson <f_at_fredrikolofsson.com>
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 13:58:28 +0200

hi Renick,
i remember seeing a post about this on the fluxus mailinglist. here...
http://lists.pawfal.org/pipermail/fluxus-pawfal.org/2013-March/005037.html

best,
_f

23 maj 2013 kl. 17:13 skrev Renick Bell <renick_at_gmail.com>:

> Did anyone make it to this event or know more about it?
>
> http://www.theaterdo.de/detail/event/289/?not=1
>
> I am curious to know more about this piece. It was described to me by
> an audience member like this (seems interesting):
>
>> They had 8 projectors and a bunch of projections screens spread throughout
>> the room at different angles. In the middle of the room were a bunch of
>> technicians/coders who had a nest of laptops and mixers and such set up.
>> Then they were coding live, which was visible on 1-3 of the screens at a
>> time, always changing. On the other 2/3 of the screens were either visual
>> images (that I guess were being created live by the coding) or the
>> homescreens of the laptops or other visual info. There was also a narrator,
>> pre-recorded, telling a story/commenting the whole time. So that I guess
>> would be sort of like your music component.
>>
>> Anyway, what I thought was really strong was the mixture of watching them
>> code on the screen, and then being able to walk right up behind the actual
>> guy and look over his shoulder as he coded. Also interesting was that
>> although I did not understand the computer language there were definitely
>> things I could understand, for example something like this: <ljadkj49>
>> <Objekt--Centre> <akfjd;k;j848>
>>
>> So I would not understand the numbers and letters and such, then all of a
>> sudden I would see a command I could sort of recognize and then something
>> would happen on the screen, and I saw a connection there.
>
> Is Rolf Meinicke on this list? Anyone know anything about it? There's
> a trailer supposedly on Youtube, but I can't get it to load somehow.
>
> Best,
>
> Renick
>
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