>We could also theorise that all of them borrow a lot from the
>principles used in analogue modular synths, which in turn borrow from
>the old analogue computer systems.
This is something I wrote and actually I was afraid of being or not being
"dogmatic" (the way people use this word in different countries confuses
me), anyways.
But saying this seems is as valid as in the extent of the philosophy and
ethos of live coding.
I believe that live coding emerges from the tradition of live electronics
and analogue synths, basically the idea of changing things on the fly and
tweak those until you make something interesting (with total Improvisation
at fore).
Thanks
K.
On 11 January 2013 12:36, Konstantinos Vasilakos <k.vasilakos_at_keele.ac.uk>wrote:
> I just realised that my email has landed in the mailing list, surprisingly
> as I was notified for not making it.
> Sorry for double postings.
> K.
>
>
> On 10 January 2013 00:02, Kassen <signal.automatique_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 07:33:39PM +0000, Konstantinos Vasilakos wrote:
>> > Hello there, I would like to ask if there is a list to track down the
>> > evolution of the languages for live coding, for example Kuivila used
>> > Forth, and there was Lisp as well, is there any tree of family of the
>> > languages for live coding?
>>
>> Mostly I think livecoding languages borrow from regular languages. For
>> example ChucK borrows a lot from Java and Supercollider from
>> Smalltalk. The big exception is that basically everything has a debt
>> to MusicN/CSound.
>>
>> Within the livecoding world the one case of clear influence I know
>> about is that Fluxa started as "near miss", being a "primitive homage
>> to SuperCollider". If we look at the actual syntax we could argue that
>> it is exposing the "lispy" aspects of SC more than actually borrowing
>> from it, but the influence was at least there as a inspiration, I
>> think.
>>
>> We could also theorise that all of them borrow a lot from the
>> principles used in analogue modular synths, which in turn borrow from
>> the old analogue computer systems. This might be a interesting angle
>> for somebody to analyse as I am really not aware of any other influence
>> of the analogue style of computing on "normal" text-based languages.
>>
>> I realise I am not helping here and am instead making the problem
>> bigger than the already daunting task of tracing linguistic influences
>> but I hope my speculation is still of at least some value.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Kas.
>>
>>
>
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