Here's a netmage draft. They'd need to know who's available up front
(roughly, I guess we can renegotiate later if accepted). I thought I might
put in klipp av separately so left me + Fredrik off the list. Plus its
unfair for me to try to be at every event... Are Perry/Alberto available?
Julian, is the thought of being on stage horrendous and you'd prefer an off
stage table to work during the set at your own pace undisturbed?
thoughts? only the top bumpf plus last paragraph different to transmediale
I just sent off.
cheers
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- Name of artist/group/crew - TOPLAP
Composition of the group/crew -
Ge Wang (Perry too? probably too busy + too expensive to get you both!)
Julian Rohruber (Alberto too?)
Alex McLean
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 presence 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 Thu Sep 09 2004 - 21:45:02 BST