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Jam city featured as part of a recent planetarium gig at the immersive | Jam city featured as part of a recent planetarium gig at the immersive | ||
vision centre in Plymouth, where | vision centre in Plymouth, where wrongheaded (Matthew Yee-King and | ||
Click Nilson) and slub (Dave Griffiths, Adrian Ward and Alex McLean) | |||
trialled surround sound and video. This was a great success and we're | trialled surround sound and video. This was a great success and we're | ||
now planning a national tour of planetariums for them. | now planning a national tour of planetariums for them. | ||
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This year's TOPLAP UK activities are part funded by a PRS Foundation | This year's TOPLAP UK activities are part funded by a PRS Foundation | ||
organisation grant. Thanks, PRSF! | organisation grant. Thanks, PRSF! | ||
For more info about livecoding and TOPLAP UK visit us at | For more info about livecoding and TOPLAP UK visit us at | ||
http://toplap.org/uk/ | http://toplap.org/uk/ |
Latest revision as of 15:18, 6 October 2009
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TOPLAP UK INFOBURST Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is starting to get somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure. http://toplap.org/uk/about/ MEDIA APPEARANCES ++ Livecoding on the bbc: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8244003.stm ++ slub article in wired magazine: http://is.gd/40jDp UPCOMING EVENTS ++ transfer 7pm - 10pm, Friday 16th October 2009 Goldsmiths Great Hall, New Cross, London An evening of beautiful experiments in music from humans and computers, featuring live coding from Slub and Yee-King alongside eminent non- livecoders Leafcutter John, Finn Peters and Spacedog. More info on the website: http://slab.org/transfer/ IN DEVELOPMENT ++ ixicode Thor Magnusson previewed his new ixi language in a recent toplap uk session at shunt lounge, London. Here's a rerun of his live set as a screencast: http://www.vimeo.com/6895068 To be released soon as part of ixi: http://www.ixi-software.net/ ++ petrol Alex McLean's haskell based livecoding software is taking shape. Here's some extra slow acid from the development screencasts: http://vimeo.com/6448819 You can follow along with the development on his blog: http://yaxu.org/ ++ jam city On the graphical live coding front, Dave Griffiths is working on a programming language based on traffic simulation, where cars and traffic lights are given little programs to follow, triggering sounds placed on the roads. http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/JamCity ++ spacecode Jam city featured as part of a recent planetarium gig at the immersive vision centre in Plymouth, where wrongheaded (Matthew Yee-King and Click Nilson) and slub (Dave Griffiths, Adrian Ward and Alex McLean) trialled surround sound and video. This was a great success and we're now planning a national tour of planetariums for them. http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/2009/09/spacecode/ ++ PRSF Grant This year's TOPLAP UK activities are part funded by a PRS Foundation organisation grant. Thanks, PRSF! For more info about livecoding and TOPLAP UK visit us at http://toplap.org/uk/