>Hi guys,
>
>Looks cool Thor, but (and im sure this has been answered before)
>i'm still not sure why building sequences with characters is much
>different from toggling lights on a stepgrid (real or virtual).
Maybe this: even just toggling characters is different from clicking
emulations of electrical buttons, because our culture of writing and
printing frames it differently, eventhough the effect may be the
same. The power of machines we are all very well aware of, but the
analogous potency of text is outside of attention. Perhaps live
coding is a public sonification of that unconcious potency.
>That said your demonstration was remarkably easy to interpret (even
>for non coders) due to its visual similarity with standard step
>sequencers, which is great in the whole 'transpareny' approach.
>
>Again, Im sure this has been answered, but there must be certain
>convolutions or functions that are handled more natively and
>naturally by text based langauges (iteration? polymorphism?,
>inheritance?) and therefore more relevent in livecoding than
>sequencing, which to me seems mainly a spatial issue (and therefore
>more graphical?)
Yes, these are most interesting and perhaps also slightly harder to
communicate. I think it is an interesting discussion still to what
degree text remains the center of programming, even when for some
reason (I'm not sure yet why actually) spatial approaches are
considered more intuitive for sound. After all, we are all writing
and talking all the time, even typing sms in nightclubs.
>
>Just my ruminations.
>
>
>Tom Betts
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>www.odessadesign.co.uk
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>
>
>Julian Rohrhuber wrote:
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I uploaded a video that shows what ixi lang is about:
>>>
>>>http://www.vimeo.com/6895068
>>>
>>>Basically about creating high level constraints in order to
>>>ease mental computation : ) and set a style to break.
>>>
>>>Thor
>>
>>nice one - the active text modifications is a good development.
>>
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