I knew this piece but I can't say I ever thought of it as live coding: the
rules of chess don't change during performance? The mappings aren't
modified once running? could you elaborate why you think it is a precursor?
(enjoyed the wiki article on Duchamp though, good to see an artist with a
sense of humour who abandons art for chess considering chess the greater
pursuit!)
I heard a rumour that there is a John Zorn improv setting that involves
musicians re-writing rules during play, but do not know which one it might
be or if it could qualify...
best
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--On 16 December 2005 01:41:20 +0100 Julian Rohrhuber
<rohrhuber_at_uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> I think I've found an instance of what we might want to call live audio
> programming that was performed around 1968. Marcel Duchamp and John Cage,
> having been old chess fellas, of course had to do it: Chess-Sonification.
> In their concert at Ryerson Polytechnic in Toronto called "Reunion", they
> used photoelectric cells to trigger sounds while playing chess.
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> there is a link to Leonardo Journal of Music vol. 9. (Lowell Cross,
> 'Reunion : John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Electronic Music and Chess)
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp
> http://members.chello.nl/j.seegers1/bib_duchamp/music_duchamp.html
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