dave's blog of art and programming

Category: Visual Programming

  • Livecoding @ AltParty

    AltParty was really impressive. I love how in Finland the demo scene is vibrant and branching out to new areas. This is ESA Mars researcher and Winner of 2009 Move An Asteroid Competition Sini Merikallio describing how a solar sail works: There were lots of people doing new things with old tech, hardware hacking and…

  • Betablocker DS is livecodable

    Betablocker-DS can now be programmed, and I’ve spent the last week testing it on public transport (with headphones…) Lots of niggles to fix, and not enough samples, but the basic interface works. The DS has such a nice feel – it also seems like a more appropriate interface than the gamepad version. It’s still not…

  • BetaBlocker DS

    A holiday project run amok, an idea to make version of betablocker for musical livecoding on minimal hardware – eschewing the world of yuppie smartphones for the gameboy ds. The betablocker virtual machine is up and running, sound is working (although only one sample at the moment) and the tiles are rendered using nintendo’s 2D…

  • Stupid conversation graph

  • Scheme Bricks for Graphics

    Scheme bricks was originally designed as a visual programming interface for functional reactive programming using frisbee – an experimental fluxus based game engine built on top of PLT’s FrTime language. I’ve ended up spending the last 18 months beta testing it in livecoding performances with slub using fluxa, culminating in the workshop last week. This…

  • Scheme bricks workshop

    A picture from the livecoding workshop in Antwerp, the first time scheme bricks has been exposed to so many people. We covered various synthesis techniques, as well as introducing livecoding more generally. This has given me a lot of motivation to move this stuff further – I’m thinking of putting it in the fluxus distribution…

  • Lambda Festival

    The most gloriously aptly named festival for livecoding I’ve ever seen, the Lambda Festival in Antwerp this weekend will see quite a lot of action from Slub. Firstly we are VJing on the Saturday, then the first ever Scheme Bricks workshop on Sunday followed by a performance in the evening.

  • Scheme Bricks 0.1

    Finally an actual release of scheme bricks! (make sure you read the README, it’s not user friendly yet). I’ve unified the maths operations, previously you had to remember if you were working on nodes or numbers (the only two types in fluxa) now you can just use the standard + – * / (before you…

  • Visualisation of Live Code

    Alex Mclean, Nick Collins and I have written a paper for EVA 2010 on Visualisation of Live Code (link to preprint version). In this paper we outline the issues surrounding live coding which is projected for an audience, and in this context, approaches to code visualisation. This includes natural language parsing techniques, using geometrical properties…

  • Scheme bricks livecoding at chmod +x art

    Here’s the first full solo performance I’ve tried with scheme bricks – I missed Alex’s sounds but it’s great footage, thanks go to the goto10 streaming/recording crew. More of my thoughts on the festival in general here.