The 2023 International Conference on Live Coding edition is organized by four live coding communities and artistic institutions based in the Netherlands, Ljubljana, Barcelona and Karlsruhe. This partnership emerged from the on-the-fly project carried o…

We have published our wiki, with information about the results of the project, events, live coders, the results of the research group and more!

For us this wiki is just the beginning, it is open for contributions, you can sign up and contribute with…

The cantinas are gatherings created during on-the-fly to discuss specific subjects, concerns, perspectives and questions between peers. A series of cantinas have set the pace of the research line of the project. During this cantina, live coders will talk about new perspectives, and conclusions of the project. It doesn’t have to be the last, but it will certainly close a season.

From the 7^th to the 9^th of July, Hangar hosts on-the-fly.collect(_), an encounter of three days that summarizes the different lines of the project and gathers live coders from the four project partners and other geographies. on-the-fly.collect(_) is a space to collect experiences, share ideas, reflect and celebrate the final stage of the two-years-long Creative Europe project On-the-Fly.

On-the-Fly is a project dedicated to the live coding practice, which revolves around humans interacting with algorithms in real-time with an artistic intention, embracing community aspects as well as glitches, errors and open-source ideas.

On-the-fly is coordinated by Hangar in partnership with Ljudmila, Creative Coding Utrecht and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.

on-the-fly.collect(_) will include a series of activities related to the live coding practice: a workshop, from scratch session, a premiere of the documentary about live coding, final reflections (the last cantina), concerts and an Algorave.

Program:

Thursday the 7th of July, Hangar

19h00-21h00 From scratch session

These experimental sessions are held once a month within the Toplap Barcelona community, this time, special guests are also going to join to the challenge: 
Each performer starts from a white screen and has 9 minutes to build a visual or/and sonic output.
The audience also has a special task: At the end of the nine minutes everyone has to clap, no matter the result. This is just for fun!

Friday the 8th of July, Hangar

10h30- 17h00 Algorithmic pattern workshop hosted by Alex Mc Lean + Lizzie Wilson + Iván Paz 

How does live coded algorithmic music relate to ancient heritage algorithms? A workshop dedicated to patterns applied for live coding music or visual that will invite participants to explore both the historical and contemporary use of algorithmic practices in pattern making. In a hands-on session, participants will be learning the practice of tablet weaving, where cards are twisted and flipped to make complex, three dimensional braiding patterns.

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19h-21h {on-the-fly} Documentary Premiere

The documentary will be presented for first time with an introduction from Olga Sismanidi, Creative Europe- Culture and the European Education and Culture Executive Agengy (EACEA) / the European Commission.  Through a series of interviews and performances, the documentary offers a glimpse into the practice of live coding and its community, a look at algorithmic performances where, with a single typo, everything can just go wrong! Then, it is not about the error, it is about what you can create out of it!

Saturday the 9th of July, Hangar

16h00 – 17h00 The last cantina

The cantinas are gatherings created during on-the-fly to discuss specific subjects, concerns, perspectives and questions between peers. A series of cantinas have set the pace of the research line of the project. During this cantina, live coders will talk about new perspectives, and conclusions of the project. It doesn’t have to be the last, but it will certainly close a season.

17h00-19h00 Live Coding Concert

Live coding is a particular way to experiment with technology. It explores the artistic possibilities derived from algorithmic processes written in real-time interaction with humans. This applied to the different levels of visuals and music such as sound synthesis, pattern generation as well as the structure of the piece. A live coding concert explores the limits and tensions of such possibilities from different angles, time conceptions and hierarchy levels.

Line up: 

17h00 Luka Frelih 

17h30 Patrick Borgeat 

18h00 Turbulente and Roger Pibernat 

18h30 Iván Paz 

Saturday the 9th of July, Sala Vol

21h30 – 03h30 Algorave

An Algorave is a festive event where people dance to music generated by algorithms. The sonic output can be depicted or inspired/conducted by visual patterns, also generated in real-time by algorithmic processes.

Line up: 

21h00 doors opening 

21h10 QBRNTHSS and Sabrina Verbage 

21h30 Flor de Fuego 

22h50 narcode and Sabrina Verbage 

23h30 digital selves and Joana Chicau 

00h10 Eloi el bon noi and Flor de Fuego 

00h50 Alicia Champlin and Joana Chicau 

1h30 Timo Hoogland: ./drum.code

2h10 Niklas and Turbulente 

2h40 La Picante AKA Jenifer 4ninston and Turbulente 

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On June 7th, Hangar participates in the Ideas Showroom of Primavera Pro in Barcelona, with a conversation on live coding práctices, between Ludovica Michelin, from the Research and Knowledge Transfer area of the center, Lina …

June–July 2022

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As part of the hackathon »Coding da Vinci«, the ZKM is hosting a free concert evening that brings together live coding performances by outstanding artists.

Live coding describes an artistic practice and creative technique in which computer programs are written in real time and on stage. The audience will be able to look over the performers’ shoulders as they spontaneously produce sound and images while experiencing an audiovisual concert program. Closely related to mathematics and computer science, live coding is a powerful tool for promoting artistic research, digital creation, and technological literacy.

With performances by Elina Lukijanova, Michele Samarotto, Daniel Kurosch Höpfner, Alex McLean and Lizzy Wilson.

»Coding Culture« is part of the »on-the-fly« project and is co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe program. It takes place in cooperation with the Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology at the Karlsruhe University of Music.

On the 5th and 6th of May Algopolis festival will host the live coding community at this year’s two-day gathering in Ljubljana. Osmo/za invites you to workshops and an exhibition opening, while Cukrarna.bar will open its doors to Friday…

Anna Carreras (1979) is a Barcelona-based creative coder and digital artist interested in the complexity that emerges from simple behaviors. In her work, she uses generative algorithms, creative code, and interactive technology as a means of communication and experience generator. She develops interactive installations to explore new emerging narratives encouraging the audience to participate and promote their collaboration. 

She is currenetly Ljudmila’s On-the-Fly artist-in-residency. 
The project she is developing as part of the residency deals with complex systems that lie on a continuum between regularity and chaos, between order and disorder. Her visual and sonic exploration of balance and homeostasis is inspired by early ideas of cybernetics. 
The proyect aims at creating a live coded performance and installation based on visual and physical interfaces. Her installation will allow visitors to participate in live coding through an interface, a hacked typewriter, and to generate rhythm, sounds and visuals with the machine. The project explores, on the one hand, how visual elements and algorithms generate machine language, and, on the other hand, how machine sounds can be visually represented.

As part of her residency she organized the workshop ‘Collaging with Code’, which took place on the 29th of March in osmo/za (Ljubljana). During the workshop she provided participants with the basics of coding in Processing. She then introduced her audience to collage techniques in combination with code, to create unique dynamic graphics and an unlimited number of variations

Anna will share the results of her research in the form of open-source software libraries and documentation on GitHub for other artists or creators to use, build on and explore further.

The event was co-organized by @ljudmilalab and co-funded by the @creative.eu program.

Roger Pibernat is a self-taught illustrator, musician and programmer, who constantly explores new artistic expressions and fields of knowledge. He started using SuperCollider in 2011 and has since performed with the Barcelona Laptop Orchestra. Roger is co-founder of the art collective Wú, where he makes electroacoustic instruments, develops digital and interactive installations and creates audiovisual performances. He is an active member of the growing live coding community in Barcelona.

Roger is currently part of Ljudmila’s research residency and he is developing a series of tools that will help speed up coding in SuperCollider and make it easier for beginners. During his residency, Roger is developing techniques for code input, editing, organization, setup, and navigation workflows in live coding perfomances with SuperCollider. His idea is to create a technical guide for playing the instrument – the code in SuperCollider – just like a documentation on playing techniques for analog instruments is made. Roger’s goal for the proposed SuperCollider code is to conform as much as possible to the live coding manifesto, especially in points regarding the insight into algorithms and performer’s mindset, and the ability to produce expressive music.

As part  of his residency Roger organized the ‘Keyboard Acrobatics’ Workshop: in the first part of his workshop, that took place on the 23rd of March, he introduced the participants to the live coding tools he has been developing during his residency at osmo/za. 
For the second part of the workshop he organized a ‘From Scratch: live coding session’, where the participants experimented with the tools and knowledge provided and performed through the From Scratch format.

The event was co-organized by @ljudmilalab and co-funded by the @creative.eu program.