dave's blog of art and programming

Category: Livecoding

  • Livenotations gig at Arnolfini – The hair of the horse

    Thanks to Farrows Creative we have some great photos of the livenotations performance with Alex McLean, Hester Reeve and me at the Arnolfini a few weeks ago. This was a completely unrehearsed combination of Hester Reeve’s live art and slub’s live coding. A score was made from rocks and stones, using their position and also…

  • Baltan Laboratories FaceSponge workshop

    This is a very late report on a workshop on Facebook livecoding/hacking we gave at Baltan Laboratories in Eindhoven in May. We were invited us to run a workshop based on Naked on Pluto as part of their Tools Series: The Tools Series is a series of Baltan Sessions that examines the complex and changing…

  • Live notation at the Arnolfini

    I was honoured to take part in the live notation unit’s event at the Arnolfini on Friday, and to perform with Alex McLean and Hester Reeve in the evening. Live notation is a project exploring connections between Live Art and Live Coding, both art forms revolving around performance, but with very different cultures and backgrounds.…

  • Cyclic score sketching for livecoding

    Live coding in cyclic time, while making the process of sketching, painting and general mark making as much part of the musical performance as the coding is. This is a prototype for “The Hair of the Horse”, a performance with Alex McLean and Hester Reeve as part of Live Notation at the Arnofini on Friday…

  • Truffle Blocks

    A new project running here that brings together Germination X’s HTML5 game engine with Google’s Blockly in the spirit of Fluxus and particularly Scheme Bricks. I’ve had a plan for working on a visual programming language for browser based games (and got someway to implementing Scheme Bricks with the Naked on Pluto art installation). Blockly…

  • FaceSponge workshop photos

    Some great photos by Boudewijn Bollmann from the Naked on Pluto workshop on social media and privacy at Baltan Laboratories last week. A more in depth post about this event coming soon.

  • Next week: Plant spirit drawing & social network livecoding

    The next few days are going to be hectic – a train powered scramble between cities for various activities. Firstly I’m taking part in FoAM’s Open House event on Saturday in Brussels: Enter a rarity cabinet of people and experiments: a lively display of human-plant hybrids, tasty table conversations, crisis-proof clothing and other curios in…

  • SuperCollider Symposium

    I had a great couple of days at the SuperCollider symposium, starting with a gameboy performance with Till Bovermann and ending with a talk on BetaBlocker with him and Tom Hall. As an outsider to the community (I have contributed code, but I’m not a regular user of Supercollider) it was interesting to pick up…

  • sc2012 livecoding flier

    Pleased that the Jellyfish project (or it’s instruction set) has found a use before I’ve had any time to write much code.

  • Betablocker @ SC2012 livecoding night

    I’m travelling to London this weekend to appear as a guest performer with Till Bovermann at the SuperCollider Symposium livecoding night, alongside livecoding all stars Benoit and the Mandelbrots, Thor Magnusson, Alo Allik and Yota Morimoto. Till and I will be collaboratively performing using the betablocker virtual machine, Till running it at audio rate inside…