Please note that due to large number of submissions and unanticipated circumstances, our workshop will not take place during NIME, and will be twice the length originally announced, spread over two days. We still encourage participants to attend the NIME conference, but it is not necessary to register with NIME to attend this workshop.
The live coding field has grown over the past 20 years from a community of artists and researchers interested in “changing rules while they are followed” -- that is, the creative practice of using a computer programming language as a live interface, mainly in the performing arts. This field has since grown into the international “TOPLAP” community, with dozens of local nodes and offshoots such as Algorave algorithmic dance music events, with events taking place in over a hundred cities with growingmediainterest.
Live coders have worked collectively to make their technology and culture accessible, with almost all systems shared as free/open source software, and attempts to instill inclusivity, diversity and safety across organisations and lineups. On this foundation, current research in the field is increasingly looking outward, beyond now well-established practices such as algorave, livecode network music and slow coding. This includes new interfaces based on old practices including the Stenophone made from a court transcription device, a live-codable loom based on ancient weaving technology, and experiments in punk genres such as riot grrrl remixed with live codeable machine listening tools.
This workshop aims to bring together current thinking on how live coding techniques can be combined with other algorithmic practices, and augmented and hybridised with gestural and physical interfaces. A feature of this research is humility, as researchers realise that relatively young computer science innovations have everything to learn from physical interface designs, which have developed through practice over hundreds and perhaps thousands of years. This online workshop explores these themes through discussion and exploration of interfaces and practices.
Video archives
Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces [1] - Instruments part one
Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces [2] - Heritage Algorithms
Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces [3] Instruments part two
Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces [4] - Live Notation
Due to production error, Kofi Oduro’s slides were not visible in the final presentation of the last session. You can view them here.
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