Hi all,
I'm doing a talk with Dave Griffiths about live coding this Thursday,
from 6pm til 8pm in the Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (the
building with the spaghetti on top, Ground Floor, right), Goldsmiths,
New Cross, SE14 6NW
Here’s the blurb:
Live coders program in conversation with their machine, dynamically
adding instructions and functions to running programs. Here there is no
distinction between creating and running a piece of software - its
execution is controlled through edits to its source code. Live coding
has recently become popular in performance, where software is written
before an audience in order to generate music and video for them to
enjoy. McLean and Griffiths have played around Europe together with
Adrian Ward as the live coding band "slub". They will talk about the
history and practice of live coding, and give some demos of their own
live coding environments.
Alex has been triggering distorted kick drum samples with Perl scripts
for far too long. He is a PhD student at Goldsmiths Digital Studios.
Dave Griffiths writes programs to make noises, pictures and animations.
He makes film effects software and computer games.
Dave & Alex are both members of the Openlab free software artists
collective and the TOPLAP organisation for live algorithm promotion.
http://slub.org ; http://toplap.org ; http://pawfal.org/openlab ;
http://pawfal.org/dave ; http://yaxu.org
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THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone
interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity,
interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in
today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s).
For more information check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/events.php or
email Maria X at drp01mc [at] gold.ac.uk
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