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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Received on Mon Jun 02 2008 - 13:45:39 BST