> Hi to all, this is my first post here. I witnessed the slub+nebogeo
> live-coding performance at sonar and, honestly, it was the most
> interesting thing I saw during the festival (I only attended the day
> events though).
Many thanks Sam! I wish I had seen more of sonar, maybe next year...
> I understand your previous comments about code obfuscation, but I also
> agree with Dave's early comment about coding from scratch to let the
> audience grasp what it's all about. I don't necessarily mean you
> should write the synthesis engine on-stage, but I think that some
> scripts from scratch would help in this direction.
>
> Still, I don't think the point is that everyone should "understand"
> the code as programmers, but instead realize that you are indeed
> coding live. I wonder if part of the audience just though it was
> merely a conceptual thing to project the text screens...
I agree that understanding every line of the code is not important (I
can't understand a line of perl, but alex's performances are facinating to
me).
I think my problem with obfuscation is that it could lead to a kind of
elitism, and mean that we play only for an initiate in-crowd. So I don't
think things should be dumbed down, but I personally don't like things to
be unnecessarily complicated in this way.
cheers,
dave
Received on Fri Jul 01 2005 - 12:02:35 BST