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
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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: 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. 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 ++ Planetarium coding Jam city featured as part of a recent planetarium gig at the immersive vision centre in Plymouth, where wrong headed (Matthew Yee-King and Nick Collins) 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 for them.