This is great, I have begun to be enthused! I added this to the swiki along
with some sorting of refs, intro etc. I added a definition of live coding
to get us started wrangling- please discuss:
Live coding is the act of programming under real-time constraints, for an
audience, as an artistic entertainment. Any software art may be programmed,
but the program should have demonstrable consequences within the
performance venue. A performance that makes successive stages of the code
construction observable, for example, through the use of an interpreted
programming language, may be the preferred dramatic option. Text interfaces
and compiler quirks are part of the fun, but a level of virtuosity in
dealing with the problems of code itself, as well as in the depth of
algorithmic beauty, may provide a more connoisseurial angle into the
display.
--On Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:13 am +0100 alex <alex_at_slab.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Tonight I've been trying to write something, anything, for this read_me
> paper. Here's what I came up with, a kind of introduction. Some of the
> ideas in it might be useful anyway. I also fiddled with the wiki, and
> typed some possible section titles in. Anyway, it's gotten late, so
> here's the text without further ado:
>
>
> There are many similarities between software and music. For example,
> both exist as a set of instructions to be interpreted and executed to
> produce a temporal form. I play this music I've scored, I run this
> software I've hacked together; I breathe life into my work.
>
> The forms of software and music have been intertwined, not only by
> musicians exploring their ideas as software processes but also by
> programmers exploring their ideas as music processes. Software
> environments such as CSound, MAX/MSP and SuperCollider are new
> playgrounds in which we may all explore the processes of music;
> describing and manipulating processes that make the music, rather than
> the music itself.
>
> Terms such as "generative music" and "process music" have been
> invented and appropriated to describe this new approach to
> composition. But the focus of this text is not to explore this
> approach, but to explore how such music should be performed.
>
> ...
>
> Goodnight!
>
> alex
>
Received on Fri May 14 2004 - 15:09:55 BST