I'm Ahmet from Istanbul. I am a major lurker in too many mailing lists.
I am a computer programmer by day and a music composition student by night.
I don't have a lot of history with livecoding; but as a computer programmer,
I find livecoding a very intimate and natural way of making music.
I work on SuperCollider.
Here is a link:
http://soundcloud.com/artsince/livecoding20100619
Thanks a lot,
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Kassen <signal.automatique_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm Kassen. I'm 33, live in The Hague (NL) and I like weird things.
>
> I got to programming audio after "normal" modular synthesis didn't quite do
> it for me any more for expressing musical ideas (it's still fine for sound
> ideas). I like interaction and I like very short musician-instrument
> feedback loops so livecoding made immediate sense as a way of working and as
> a recreational activity. I'm not that into elaborate preparations and the
> stale performance experience those lead to so coding for a audience also
> made sense.
>
> I've been ChucKing since the dawn (dusk?) of the "Dracula" version and
> that's my main instrument. I like Fluxus a lot for visuals and to enjoy the
> entirely different programming style. Lately I've been playing with a
> certain synthesis extension to Fluxus (that I'm not allowed to mention by
> name for fear of getting more users by a certain developer) a lot for
> whimsical experimentation and because it's very simple and very fast.
>
> My experiences with livecoding also encouraged me to put myself on the spot
> more with other experimental/unstable forms of improvising music (like
> turntables, feedback-based analogue synthesis, etc). I try to play that way
> as often as possible on local free radio. I'd like to encourage those on the
> fence to just start and try it once; with free software demanding your money
> back if you would turn out not to like it is quite easy. Pairing up with
> somebody, with one person doing audio and the other doing visuals that react
> to this has been a good form of practice for me and that might be a "safe"
> context to start with; there is a audience but the audience is in the same
> shoes. We may have put too much emphasis on "skill", even "competition", and
> too little on "enjoyment" in the past; few would argue that a guitar only
> has value when played on a stage, playing by yourself is also fine, as is
> playing in small ad-hoc ensembles. IMHO livecoding should be seen in the
> same way.
>
> Yours,
> Kas.
>
>
>
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ahmet kizilay
http://www.ahmetkizilay.com
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