On 17.02.2011, at 11:27, Kassen wrote:
> Marije;
>
> Otherwise, I can see several tensions...
> - how is typing up how Unit Generators interact different than patching cords
> on an analog synth?
>
If you build a robot that patches the analog synth, whose movements can be programmed by patching, or by audio input, perhaps then patching the robot would be live coding?
> It isn't, I feel that live patching of analogue synths is also livecoding, especially as analogue synths are essentially analogue computers and are Turing complete, given enough logic gate modules. In practice we aren't given enough logic gate modules but then again we aren't given enough GHz either so that's a moot point.
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My claim for today is: turing completeness is not sufficient for live coding. Algorithmic equivalence is not transitive with respect to intervention. But it may be live coding for other reasons.
> - how is changing parameters through a text interface different than using
> knobs?
it isn't. But you can rethink both a program and your own past actions using text very differently.
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