I should add that it's from 6pm until 8pm. It's in the Seminar Rooms
at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, right), Goldsmiths,
University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW
It's free, and no booking is required.
alex
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 14:42 +0100, alex wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Dave and I are doing a talk this thursday if anyone's in town:
>
> *5 JUNE with ALEX MCLEAN & DAVE GRIFFITHS
>
> Live Coding
>
> Live coders program in conversation with their machine, dynamically
> adding instructions and functions to running programs. Here there is no
> distinction between creating and running a piece of software - its
> execution is controlled through edits to its source code. Live coding
> has recently become popular in performance, where software is written
> before an audience in order to generate music and video for them to
> enjoy. McLean and Griffiths have played around Europe together with
> Adrian Ward as the live coding band “slub”. They will talk about the
> history and practice of live coding, and give some demos of their own
> live coding environments.
>
> ALEX MCLEAN has been triggering distorted kick drum samples with Perl
> scripts for far too long. He is a PhD student at Goldsmiths Digital
> Studios.
>
> DAVE GRIFFITHS writes programs to make noises, pictures and animations.
> He makes film effectis software and computer games.
>
> Dave & Alex are both members of the Openlan free software artists
> collective and the TOPLAP organisation for live algorithm promotion.
> slub.org ; toplap.org ; pawfal.org/openlab ; pawfal.org/dave ; yaxu.org
>
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>
> THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone
> interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity,
> interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in
> today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s).
>
> For more information check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/events.php or
> email Maria X at drp01mc [at] gold.ac.uk
>
> To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/
>
>
Received on Mon Jun 02 2008 - 21:56:19 BST