ChucK was first released in 2003 by Ge Wang, around the same time as Supercollider 3, leading to the emergence … More
Author: Alex McLean
The Many Faces of a Temporal Recursion
Temporal recursion is a neat and terse way of representing time in functional programming. Andrew Sorensen has used it heavily … More
Dagstuhl seminar: Collaboration and Learning through Live Coding
In September, an international seminar on Live Coding will take place at Schloss-Dagstuhl, an institution known for a continual, peer-reviewed … More
Benoit and the Mandelbrots on the big stage
Benoit and the Mandelbrots had a rather busy June, including playing at Stadtgeburtstag @ Schlosspark in Karlsruhe, with a big sound and huge … More
Sound Choreography Body Code
There’s a kinaesthetic fringe growing around the usual audio/visual TOPLAP activities, where people live code other people, or even themselves, … More
Algorave
The algorave concept kicked off last month, with events in Brighton and London, and then a 100% live coded algorave in … More
Livecodefest done
festival weekendFull props to the organisers, that was an incredible, difficult-to-summarise live.code.festival of great people, food, beer, slides, and of … More
UrMus: Live coding on a mobile phone
UrMus is a programming environment for iOS and Android devices, including phones and tablets. It is based upon the rather … More
live.code.festival, 19-21 April 2013, Karlsruhe
The full performance line-up for the live.code.festival in Karlsruhe is now available, go and check it out! The organisers (led by … More
Live hacking with Overtone
There’s a lot of buzz around overtone at the moment, a live coding language/environment built on Clojure and the SuperCollider … More
From around the web
It’s nice to search twitter for “live coding“, and get a taste of what’s happening around the fringes. This has … More
Video roundup
Some recent live coding related videos from the tubes. Firstly, super impressive try out of live coding GLSL fragment shader … More
The holy grail of conference talks
As a search on twitter will reveal, live coding is becoming increasingly popular in conference talks. Here at TOPLAP … More
Extempore developments and new tutorials
The Extempore livecoding environment is emerging from a two year development, and according to its creator Andrew Sorensen, is now … More
The Laptop Orchestra and the Network Music Festival
Every self-respecting university music department now has a laptop orchestra, or similar form of LIve GRoup COmputer Performance (LIGROCOP) activity. … More
LIVE 2013 – First international workshop on Live Programming
LIVE 2013 is the first international workshop on Live Programming, happening on May 19th in San Francisco, colocated with ICSE, the International … More