Category: Livecoding
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Fluxus at Falmouth University
On Friday Cornwall Locative Arts Network, Cornwall Creative Skills and I took over The Academy for Innovation & Research at Falmouth University with a Fluxus workshop, teaching creative coding via recursive procedural 3D modelling for people new to programming. The thing I like most about Scheme as a programming language is that you can very…
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MS Stubnitz Algorave #2
Our second offshore Algorave on the MS Stubnitz, during the ship’s final night in London. The crowd was pleasingly diverse with lots of people new to algorave and livecoding, and although behind the scenes we had some hitches due to the ship’s impending departure for France, the event was relaxed and went smoothly. Our performance…
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Algorave practice
It’s been a huge amount of time since I recorded anything, but I thought I would a) try and do some actual livecoding practice for the upcoming algorave on Thursday and b) record everything. As usual I’m following my foolhardy approach of improvising both musical structure and sound material by livecoding synth graphs from scratch.…
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Life on an Algorave Tour
Some pictures taken during the recent Algorave Tour, making people dance to algorithms in Brighton, London, Karlesruhe, Cologne and Dusseldorf. The MS Stubnitz moored in Canary Wharf surrounded by financial architecture: Wandering around during soundcheck, a heavy duty workshop on the Stubnitz: Sound checking with Andrew Sorenson: A speaker close up, one of many: Norah…
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Random notes from the Live Code Festival, Karlsruhe
During his talk at the live code festival Karlsruhe 2013, David Ogborn (to paraphrase from my faulty memory) said that livecoding seems a very current thing, that something about it seems to be in the air, so much of what we are doing seems to stick and thrive like a form of bacteria. This festival…
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Fluxus workshop in Falmouth
After rushing around Europe doing a lot of livecoding over the last week (more on that soon) I’m really pleased to announce this workshop closer to home in Falmouth: CLAN and CREATIVE SKILLS present: CREATIVE CODING taster session for ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS with Dave Griffiths Friday May 31st 10.30am – 12.30pm AIR building, Falmouth University, Tremough…
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Building pyramids with code composition
The Al Jazari 2 bots currently have six basic actions – move forward/backwards, turn 90 degrees left or right, pick up the block underneath them or drop the block to the space they are currently sitting on. Given these instructions, how do we procedurally build pyramids (of any given size) like this in their minecraft-esque…
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algoravin in the UK
A short trip around the UK for slub over the last couple of days, a livecoding gig in London at Bartlett Nexus in UCL at an event concerning architecture, games and hand made technology. A full video of the event (with us at the end) is here. Also collected along the way, a photo of…
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Al Jazari 2 re-arranger robot program
Onboard a robot, who is following a sequence of instructions (in the spirit of the original Al Jazari), to pick up, carry and drops blocks in order to re-organise it’s environment. Halfway through we switch to a robot which is running code that makes it player controllable, so we can look around. This is all…
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Al Jazari 2 – minecraft meets fluxus
Some screenshots of the in-progress next generation Al Jazari livecoding world. This is a voxel rendered world, inspired in part by Minecraft but with an emphasis on coding robots in scheme bricks who construct artefacts from the materials around them. The robot language is still to be designed, but will probably resemble Scratch. You can…