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Category: Performances

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Slub on Chordpunch CP0x08

    A recording from our livecoding performance in Paris last year has been released for free on Chordpunch, a new online record label: Chordpunch was set up to explore the many and moving forms of algorithmic music. That might mean a computer program generating every note you hear, or new electronic music inspired by algorithms, or…

  • slub in Paris

    Some random pictures from some excellent (and at times very loud) few days in Paris. Thanks to Sony Computer Science Labs and also the Paris contingent of the TPOLM demo crew for coming out to support us. The gig was extensively recorded, so hopefully more about this soon.

  • Video from 4for8 event

    TAI Studio Opening Documentary from LFSaw.de on Vimeo. More context on the tai studio webpage. Includes my first gameboy ds livecoding performance with webcamera screen/fingers/stylus projection.

  • Betablocker DS premier @ 4for8

    My first attempt at homebrew driven “touch” livecoding at the TAI studio opening event at the Helsinki Media Lab. The DS itself proved to be quite a draw for the audience, and I think the addition of hands and fingers to the projection of a livecoding interface is a (partly unintentional) move in a good…