Above is a quick intro to Gibber, quickly demonstrating its audio and new (to me) drawing capabilities. You also get … More
Category: Software
Overtone 0.9 Released
Version 0.9 of Overtone, the Collaborative Live Coding toolkit, was recently announced. Overtone provides a Clojure language front-end to the SuperCollider synthesis … More
New languages and things
This has been a super busy month for live coding, and I haven’t had much time to update this lately. … More
ChucK 1.3.2.0 released, book and MOOC on the way
ChucK was first released in 2003 by Ge Wang, around the same time as Supercollider 3, leading to the emergence … More
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
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 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
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
Live coding on the Raspberry Pi
Happy new year! In the UK, 2012 was the year of the Raspberry Pi, a cheap hardware contribution to … More
Acme – the text editor from Plan 9
Acme is a programmers’ text editor from the Plan 9 operating system. It was developed in the early 1990s by … More
Temporal recursion now in Fluxus
Programmers working in the functional style often like to avoid writing functions which have any side-effects beyond returning a value. … More
No-input live coding with Clive and BEER
It’s time to coin the phrase no-input live coding. First the context — a no-input mixing board is a mixer that’s … More
TOPLAPapp in the browser
Continuing the rush to browser-based live coding, the sonic, abstract live coding puzzle TOPLAPapp by the mysterious Click Nilson now runs in … More
Otomata – Online Generative Musical Sequencer by Batuhan Bozkurt
I think “Otomata” by Batuhan Bozkurt is lovely and it sounds lovely. It works a tiny bit like AlJazari in that there are … More
Bret Victor on Live Coding
Bret Victor has another insightful essay up about “learnable coding”, which he says is an “immune response” to people saying … More
Digital natives – the next generation of live coders?
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/40971142] Live coding can feel like a practice in a perpetual state of becoming, sometimes unsure of where it … More