On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:56 PM, David Griffiths <dave_at_pawfal.org> wrote:
> On 13/01/13 09:59, Ross Bencina wrote:
> > Clearly I'm in the minority, but the line has to be drawn somewhere and
> > I can't think of a better place to draw it -- unless you want some
> > watered down definition of "live coding" that pretty much admits every
> > procedural activity under the sun from deterministic dataflow patching
> > to musical dice games.
>
> I'm not sure a line has to be drawn anywhere - why can't we have a
> continuum?
>
> Some of the best livecoding I saw recently was human-coding via vague
> text descriptions in sclang's text editor.
>
>
I had a similar thought. But I think Ross wants to distinguish 'live
coding' based more on the artist's ability to stretch and express - no
clipped wings. I also think that's fair.
Received on Sun Jan 13 2013 - 21:28:19 GMT