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Category: Livecoding

  • Fluxus on the Raspberry Pi

    After getting acquainted with the BeagleBoard while working on the Swamp bike opera I decided to have a look at the similar Raspberry Pi, and particularly it’s graphics systems. The Android/PS2 version of fluxus, called nomadic is ported after a bit of fiddling, but no mouse or keyboard input yet (build it with ‘scons TARGET=RPI’).…

  • Re-interpreting history

    A script for sniffing bits of supercollider code being broadcast as livecoding history over a network and re-interpreting them as objects in fluxus, written during an excellent workshop by Alberto de Campo and Julian Rohrhuber at /*VIVO*/ Mexico City. (osc-source “57120”) (define (stringle str) (map char->integer (string->list str))) ;;(osc-destination “osc.udp:255.255.255.255:57120”) ;;(osc-send “/vivo” “s” ‘(“fluxus:hola”)) (define…

  • slub at /* vivo */

    My last /* vivo */ Mexico post, some data from our livecoding performance on the final day. This was one of those performances where we had a rough plan and got a bit too carried away by the crowd to follow it (I guess one of the great things about improvisation!). Also to a great…

  • /* vivo */ musings

    So much to think about after the /* vivo */ festival, how livecoding is moving on, becoming more self critical as well as gender balanced. The first signs of this was the focus of the festival being almost entirely philosophical rather than technical. Previous meetings of this nature have involved a fair dose of tech…

  • Mexican livecoding style

    At only around 2 years old, the Mexican livecoding scene is pretty advanced. Here are images of (I think) all of the performances at /*vivo*/ (Simposio Internacional de Música y Código 2012) in Mexico City, which included lots of processing, fluxus, pure data and ATMEL processor bithop along with supercollider and plenty of non-digital techniques…

  • Livecoding at Mozilla Fest

    A very friendly Mozilla festival gig! (source) Beware of the TOPLAP gang:

  • Making time

    Time, the ever baffling one directional mystery. A lot of it has been spent between the members of slub on ways to synchronise multiple machines to share a simple beat, sometimes attempting industrial strength solutions but somehow the longest standing approach we always come back to for our various ad-hoc software remains to be a…

  • scheme bricks 2

    A new version of scheme bricks is under way, planned to be tested out with slub on the Mozilla Fest Party, then taken across the Atlantic for some more livecoding action in Mexico City! New things include blocks with depth – cosmetic for the moment, but I plan to prototype some new ideas based on…

  • Temporal recursion

    Slub have a number of important livecoding transmissions coming up (including a performance at the Mozilla Festival!) so it’s time to work on fluxus/fluxa/scheme bricks. Here are some recording tests of a feature I’ve been wanting to use for a long time – temporal recursion. These recordings were not changed by hand as they played,…

  • Touchscreen programming

    As more and more people use touchscreens, it still irks me that we lack good ways of programming “on” devices reliant on them (i.e. native feeling – rather than modified text editors). As a result they seem designed entirely around consumption of software (see also the “The coming war on general-purpose computing”). So lets make…