Live coding

Pages

• Amy Alexander
• Algobabez
• Joanne Armitage
• Joana Chicau
• Fluxus (software)
• Fredrik Olofsson
• Dave Griffiths
• Shelly Knotts
• Livecodera
• Thor Magnusson
• Alex McLean
• Nick Collins
• Constantine Nisidis
• Julian Rohrhuber
• Slub
• Malte Steiner
• TOPLAP
• Adrian Ward

Events

• Algoraves
• ICLC, conference, since 2015.
• 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. [3]

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. Publisher. Toot.
• more

Links

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