Re: [livecode] paper abstract

From: Nick Collins <nc272_at_cam.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 20:05:48 +0000

ignore mailing list instructions request- just found them at bottom of the
postings! stupid me.

--On Sunday, February 22, 2004 7:48 pm +0000 Nick Collins <nc272_at_cam.ac.uk>
wrote:

> I drafted an abstract for a RUNME paper, obviously fully open to
> discussion. It might also help get us get grounded? (I don't presume I've
> got this right first time!) Are there some wiki instructions, how do I
> add a new page to the wiki for the abstract?
>
> Also, mailing list- is there an online joining/quitting interface- to
> invite Ge Wang to join etc...
>
> Cheers
> N
>
>
> RUNME abstract
> Live Audio Programming and a Temporary Organisation for its Promotion
>
> DJ Albatross, MC XVIII, Terminalator X and Scope Codey Code (joke names,
> or our real ones?)
>
> "Why, his hands move so fluidly that they almost make music" (Ba.Ch
> creates a chess program for Crab) Hofstader, D. (2000) Godel Escher
> Bach. (20th anniv. ed.) Penguin. p729.
>
> We can do better than almost.
>
> Live computer music and visual performance can now involve interactive
> control of algorithmic processes. In normal practise, the interface for
> such activity is determined before the concert. In a new discipline of
> live coding or on-the-fly programming the control structures of the
> algorithms themselves are malleable at run-time. Such algorithmic fine
> detail is most naturally explored through a textual interpreted
> programming language. A number of practitioners are already involved with
> these possibilities using a variety of platforms and languages.
>
> (if need longer abstract now mentions the hub, jitlib, slub, chuck,
> ubergeek?)
>
> An international organisation, TOPLAP, has recently been established to
> promote the diffusion of these issues and provide a seal of quality for
> the audiogrammers, progisicians and codeductors exploring the art of
> coding in live performance. To this end, a manifesto, Lubeck 04,
> presented herein, attempts to qualify the expertise required in live
> programming for an acceptable contribution to this new field.
>
>
>
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