I've added/amended below- one important one, changed Algorithmic
Programming to Algorithm Programming- the human action is in writing
algorithms on the fly. You could metarise this to Algorithmic production of
programs, but Algorithm covers the meta-levels too whereas Algorithmic
Programming is either a tautology or a specialism.
Some of this can be adapted expanded (and chuck in a few things from our
papers...) for other proposals. N
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.
TOPLAP proposes an evening 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 where I'd list who'd play, but we''d need confirmations and prob.
unecessary at this point- Alex, Nick, Dave using fluxus? dream list-
Julian/Alberto, Ge...)
Further information on TOPLAP artists, events and theory is available at:
http://www.toplap.org
Received on Tue Aug 17 2004 - 12:02:23 BST