TomHall
Tom Hall is one of the co-founders of the slow code movement, which aims to take the virtuosic element out of live coding. Dissatisfied with the fast pace of the otherwise engaging London slow sound system events, Tom decided to co-found the slow code movement, which is to music what the slow food movement is to cooking. Live slow coding attempts to take the excitement and danger (often seen as a feature) out of livecoding, and replace it with a meditative, non-hurried, but at the same time anti-minimalist approach using a very lazy evaluation scheme implemented within SuperCollider, the Snoidul Slow Code Library (SSCLib) SuperCollider classes. At a slow code event, the organisers guarantee that the audience will not feel the need to look at the coders' screens more often than once every 4 minutes, 33 seconds (the slow coders themselves may look at their own screens more often than that using the phi notification method within the SSCLib system ). A recent composition using this system is an algorithmic composing-through of Morton Feldman's 1953 work Intermission 6, for computer alone (a piano and computer version also exists).