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Events

• Algoraves
• ICLC, conference, since 2015.
• Algomech festival of algorithmic and mechanical movement, Sheffield, 2016-2019.
• Algopolis, Ljubljana, since 2021

Releases

• TOPLAP001 - A prehistory of live coding, c2007. [1] [2]
• http://chordpunch.com/

Software

Popular live coding software includes ChucK, Cyril, extempore, fluxus, impromptu, overtone and supercollider. Environments designed for fast exploration of musical pattern include ixi lang and TidalCycles. Sonic Pi is designed for teaching both music and computer science in classrooms, as well as performing in algoraves. There are also impressively capable web-based live coding environments like gibber and livecodelab. Live patching is live coding with graph-based languages such as the venerable pure data. It’s also possible to livecode with a gamepad, e.g. with the robot oriented Al-Jazari. [3]

DRW is a lightweight web app where participants can contribute quick and gestural drawings transformed into vector graphics for live coding performances. DRW, accessible from smartphones, empowers audiences to directly influence the visuals in real-time. This system has been utilized in live concerts, where audience members' responses to the music in the form of drawings become part of the visual experience.

Resources

• https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding/

Literature

• Simon Yuill, "All Problems of Notation Will Be Solved By the Masses", Mute 2:8, London: Mute, May 2008.
• Alex McLean, Artist-Programmers and Programming Languages for the Arts, London: Goldsmiths, 2011, 172 pp. PhD dissertation.
• Alan Blackwell, Alex McLean, James Noble, Julian Rohrhuber (eds.), Collaboration and learning through live coding (Dagstuhl Seminar 13382), 2014, 39 pp.
• Thor Magnusson, "Live coding", in Magnusson, Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, pp 189-190.
• Alan F. Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, Thor Magnusson, Live Coding: A User's Manual, MIT Press, Nov 2022, 344 pp, HTML, PDF. Publisher. Toot.
• more

Links

• http://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/671
• https://netherlands-coding-live.github.io/
• Wikipedia