- Name of artist/group/crew - TOPLAP
Composition of the group/crew - (provisional, negotiable depending on
availability of some people, and flight costs)
Ge Wang
Julian Rohruber
Alex McLean
Ade Ward
Dave Griffiths
Name of musician or musical support -
same as above; see below.
Site address: - www.toplap.org
Email - livecode_at_toplap.org
Tel - virtual only please
Support used -
Technical requirements - at least 2 projectors, preferably one each, or
with a reliable switcher for showing different desktops. Good PA with
mixing desk for at least four stereo inputs from laptops. table onstage
for some laptops.
Attachments - demo material is available from the web site, including
various movies from the recent README festival performance. See under:
http://www.toplap.org/?HistoricalPerformances
Description of project (as attachment where possible) -
Brief biographical note of artist/group/crew- see the site.
Authorisation for the use of brief extracts from the work for publicity
and promotional purposes on TV and radio. Given.
Please note that material sent will become part of the festival archive
and will not be returned. Please make sure that all parts of the
application form have been filled out.
Signature. Digitally signed in the presense of a mailing list.
Some computer languages allow a programmer to change a running process
on the fly by rewriting the code that defines it. If the output of that
code is a process being revealed to human senses, an interactive
performance is possible. Applied to live computer music this means
sound compositions can be heard as they form, and musical algorithms
adjusted while already playing.
TOPLAP is the Temporary Organisation for the Promotion of Live
Algorithm Programming, set up to explore the application of live
programming to composition and performance. TOPLAP advocates treating
algorithms as live artistic material, allowing them to be written and
manipulated while they create music or video, perhaps in front of an
audience.
The interests of the TOPLAP membership encompass live coding
performances with output in both audio and visual modalities, the
possibilities of immediate feedback given by prototyping compositions
in interpreted programming languages and new languages for on-the-fly
programming. This international organisation is gathering membership
and profile. Recent performances and demonstrations have taken place in
Japan, USA, Sweden, Germany, England and Denmark.
Further information on TOPLAP artists, events and theory is available
at:
http://www.toplap.org
The site contains links to archived performances, papers on live coding
practise and history as identified by the group.
For the Live Media Floor section of Netmage05 TOPLAP proposes a session
of performances from live coders, with both audio and visual outputs.
The audience will see and hear the created musical and visual material,
and also the projected screens of the participants so that the
processes are entirely open and the craft apparent. The coded
improvisations show a novel blend of intellectual and emotional content
that challenges existing notions of both traditional haptic
instrumental and DJ like laptop performance. This is a true audiovisual
blend, with the audio coders providing visual content from their
programming interfaces, the visual artists running generative graphics
tools with visible coding control.
Received on Wed Sep 15 2004 - 17:52:20 BST