Hi,
your entry form is ok, but we definetly need a hardcopy of the entry formular
(we need the signature and some other things).
Please send us the formular if possible by fax +49 30 24 749 814), we will put
it together with the rest of your submission!
Best,
Magdalena Rothweiler
assistant festivalmanagement
Quoting toplap <livecode_at_toplap.org>:
> Dear Madam/Sir,
> We, TOPLAP, enclose an entirely digital entry for the
> transmediale award and club transmediale, considering the medium of
> paper a little old fashioned.
> We hope this is fine with you and will not disqualify us from
> participation.
> With thanks for your upcoming judging efforts,
> TOPLAP
>
>
> application form details:
> institution: TOPLAP
> address- virtual, contact via livecode_at_toplap.org or the website.
> title of work: TOPLAP authors: TOPLAP
>
> three keywords: interactive performative instrument
>
> URL: www.toplap.org
>
> Country: at least 5 Year: 2004
>
> accompanied by proposal/explanation below, plus the site itself.
>
> We agree to the conditions of entry and wish to enter the work for
> selection in the award as well as for club transmediale.
>
>
>
> http://www.toplap.org/?TransmedialeSubmission
>
> 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 transmediale awards TOPLAP submits itself. In particular, we
> would like to highlight the LUBECK04 Manifesto for Live Coding
> Performance, as linked:
>
> http://toplap.org/?ManifestoDraft
>
> For instance, criticism of laptop performers is rampant (by an old
> guard?) but it is quite possible to fight such rejection on a better
> surface: projection of laptop screens to reveal the whole instrument.
> For audio especially, it is vital that we confront the issue of a level
> playing field between laptop musicians and conventional acoustic
> instrumentalists with such full disclosure. Even whilst the immediacy
> of gesture is still open to debate, the game is at least honest and
> education of audiences paramount. (Those who worry about trivialisation
> of such pedagogy are ignoring the possibility of closing your eyes
> whilst listening to music...). The information can be discrete, not
> overbearing: but definitely available.
>
> The organisation has identified many avenues of exploration for text
> based interaction which we are seeking to address. Novel engagement
> with adaptable level control of as great a flexibility as code affords
> is a possibility too rich to ignore.
>
> For club transmediale 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.
>
> Attendance of particular TOPLAP members would be negotiated, but the
> organisation is happy to also talk about its work in an appropriate
> forum.
>
> Particular TOPLAP artists are linked from the site, which the judges
> are encouraged to explore to see the breadth of activity and enthusiasm
> in this new field.
>
>
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Received on Fri Sep 10 2004 - 08:39:53 BST