On 3 Jul 2011, at 20:38, alex wrote:
> So I'm wondering what other people think the future directions in live
> coding might be. Any thoughts/ideas? Anyone doing anything new that
> they'd like Newcastle to know about? :)
Two things I'm looking into right now are the augmentation of code with external devices. In my case this is primarily driven with explorations with the monome. This doesn't just mean the on-the-fly writing of trigger functions which can be fired by the monome, but also seeing the monome's bidirectional surface as a programmable entity in its own right. I see pure 'live coding with text' as potentially too course-grained for many types of performances and more fine-grained and immediate interactions may better be facilitated with an external physical device.
Secondly, I'm looking into programming languages that provide explicit semantics for coordination and synchronisation between both the processes of a given live coder and also the processes of multiple live coders jamming together. For this I'm currently focussing on Clojure which has explicit concurrency semantics and is offering a lot of insight and potential in this area. One of the goals of Overtone is to enable such coordination. In fact, in our performance in Amsterdam last November, Jeff Rose and I performed using the same VM from two separate machines - Clojure made this very easy.
Also, if you bump into anyone that knows me, say hi - I did my undergraduate and PhD in Newcastle :-)
Sam
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Received on Mon Jul 04 2011 - 08:43:49 BST