ToplapUKRelease

Things to mention

• Transfer event w/ myk and slub
• Thor's new language
• slub wired article
• planetarium trial
• bbc report
• livecoding game 'JamCity' in development: http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/JamCity

infoburst

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 in the news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8244003.stm
• slub article in wired: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-09/25/making-music-with-live-computer-code-.aspx

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
 http://slab.org/

IN DEVELOPMENT

 ++ ixicode
 Thor Magnusson previews his new ixi language in a screencast: http://www.vimeo.com/6895068
 To be tidied and 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

 ++ 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