Things to mention
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 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
++ 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 of planetariums for them.
http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/2009/09/spacecode/
For more info about livecoding and TOPLAP UK visit us at
http://toplap.org/uk/