Hi all,
Some more potential early livecoding references from Simon Yuill:
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Subject: [Openlab] scratch coding
From: "simon yuill" <simon_at_lipparosa.org>
Date: Wed, December 12, 2007 5:08 pm
To: "OpenLab London" <openlab_at_lists.pawfal.org>
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Hi,
It was good to meet up with some of you last week at the Foundry. I was
chatting to David a bit about the pre-history of livecoding and was
telling him about the Scratch Orchestra who were a music and performance
collective who existed in London in the late 1960's, for more background
see:
http://www.stefan-szczelkun.org.uk/PHD-SCRATCH2.htm
One of the works they published was a set of performance scores called
"Nature Study Notes" (1969), one of the scores is an early example of
live-life-coding:
"Use any means to decide on a conductor. He is set up in front and
asked to improvise soundlessly. The rest read him like a score and play
accordingly."
Interestingly "Nature Study Notes" also has an early form of copyleft
license on it, which not only allows for copies but also encourages
people to make modifications and additions to the scores which can be
incorporated into later versions:
"No rights are reserved in this book of rites. They may be reproduced
and performed freely. Anyone wishing to send contributions for a second
set should address them to the editor: C.Cardew, 112 Elm Grove Road,
London SW13."
Another piece of livecoding pre-history is the group Exit, who existed
around the same time and performed with graphic scores that were often
drawn live during performance. Two of the main members of Exit were
Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher who later went on to be part of the
anarcho-punk band Crass - Yves Degoyan would be proud (or mortified
...). You can find more info on Exit in George Berger's book "The Story
of Crass".
Anyway this is stuff I'm covering in an article for the FLOSS+Art book
so will send a copy on when it's done .... I am also giving a version of
it as a talk in London next January, so will maybe see you back in the
Foundry some point soon ....
best wishes
Si
Received on Thu Dec 13 2007 - 10:49:28 GMT