We've all noted in the past I think how some situations, like 'background
coding' or 'collaborative coding' are much less pressured, and here the
hard practice can certainly be downplayed in comparison to inspiration and
collaboration.
But the solo or competitive coding situations still exist and I think I
naturally turn towards them, not because I'm unsympathetic with the other
roles, but because I'm genuinely curious about human beings being pushed to
the limits. Musicians often seek out the states where they're on the edge
and out of their comfort zone, because those are the best learning
experiences- and I think we need many more high profile failures to learn
our real limits, or truly surprise ourselves with what we're capable.
--On 9 January 2007 17:17:04 +0100 Julian Rohrhuber
<rohrhuber_at_uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
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>> I'm really curious to see if anyone has followed up the practice
>> challenge Fredrik and I pursued in August. Are we close to
>> abandoning live coding, is it just Alex working hard at it*, or are
>> there dedicated academies springing up on the underground?
>>
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> For me solo live coding is a bit more a private performance art. I have
> the impression the problem is not practise, but inspiration, and I still
> like those patches best (of the ones I did in the practise in august)
> that explored an idea.
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> In the seminars I give it is normal practise to be in "double discourse"
> about and with the program, recently we programmed an artificial acoustic
> bathtub that way. The sonification workshop with Alberto de Campo was
> also a real success and it was all "live coding" (but there was no
> "audience", only participants).
>
> The recent concert of powerbooks unplugged I liked a lot because it is
> really collaborative live coding, with all the range from individual
> reasoning to collective reasoning. There is a lot of potential, but I
> find it already very interesting.
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Received on Wed Jan 10 2007 - 09:57:36 GMT