Category: slub
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Visual livecoding environments: big screenshots
Some decent sized screenshots of al jazari and scheme bricks rendered with fluxus’s tiled frame dump command. This set includes some satisfyingly glitchy al jazari shots – not sure what was causing this, I initially assumed it was the orthographic projection, but the same artefacts occurred on the perspective first-person robot views, so it needs…
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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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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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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…
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/* 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…
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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…
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Livecoding at Mozilla Fest
A very friendly Mozilla festival gig! (source) Beware of the TOPLAP gang:
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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…