| Listening to the mind at play | ||
|---|---|---|
| Contextual map | Visual reference | Generative process |
| Artists A - Z | Artwork A - Z | Key content |
| Audience participation | Social setting | Research process |
| Title: |
| Live coding performances |
| Artist(s): |
| Toplap |
| Brief description of the work: |
| Live coding of sound and images, generated live using digital signal processing |
| Materials, dimensions, duration: |
| Group of artists and programmers who develop open source code for live coding, examples include 'chuck' software. |
| Location (venue & dates, public/ private): |
| Numerous international performances, for example 7th February 2005 Club Transmediale, Club Maria, Berlin, with 10 members of Toplap. Toplap also give demonstrations and workshops, for example at the Transmediale 2004 |
| Audience information (size, mode of participation): |
| Traditional audience setting for the presentation, seated or standing audience in club environment. |
| Other information (reviews, collaborators, funders): |
| - |
| Floorplan, scheme: |
Toplap presentation at Transmediale 2004
|
| Visual/ audio-visual reference: |
live coding session at Sonar festival, Barcelona, 2002
"Hacking Sound" |
| Key theme(s): |
| Observing and listening to systems in action |
| Further context: |
|
http://projects.dorkbot.org/rd04/wiki/ Live coding places the agency even further in the performer's domain than generative art. Toplap make the distiction between generative sound and live coding as follows: "generative music is created from algorithms, usually running autonomously. There may be controls (parameters/ arguments) to this process but the algorithm itself is fixed. Live coding is a way to substantially modify the actual nature of that algorithm, even as it calculates, in a realtime performance." (Toplap online) |