Re: [livecode] live coding and free software - feedback rqrd

From: Dave Griffiths <dave_at_pawfal.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:29:50 +0100 (BST)

Hi Alex,

It's good to see this, as I've written a piece for that publication which
is more of a critique of open source monomania and only mentions
livecoding in passing. It brings things up to date well, and clarifies a
lot of the finer points of live coding - like the screen projection issue.
A few thoughts:

I'm not really sure what you mean by live electricity, in that the
electricity flowing through a computer running ableton is just as live as
supercollider - but I guess I'm over-analysing a poetic point.

Also, the software industry has gone quite a long way past formal design,
the latest fashion is agile development: http://agilemanifesto.org/
Which has some interesting features from a livecoding POV.

cheers,

dave

>
>
> Hi all,
>
> If anyone has time to read this article and send me feedback of all
> kinds, I'd really appreciated it:
>
> http://yaxu.org/flossart.pdf
>
> Of course if any bits seem debate worthy feel free to raise them on the
> list...
>
> Despite the date, it's not intended as an april fool thing. It's for a
> book called floss+art, which is about free software and the digital
> arts.
>
> Cheers,
>
> alex
>
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