Hi Derek, A good question, I should certainly add a "what is live coding" page on the website!
I recommend a browse around the TOPLAP website (http://toplap.org/) to get a feel for the kind of activities that go on in this community. Music performance is a preoccupation, but there is also a lot of activity in education, video animation, choreography and software engineering. But really live coding is a community and a set of techniques, and it depends. My own preferred way of live coding is either in a nightclub setting, with people dancing to my code (see http://algorave.com), or in an improvised jazz situation where I'm coding alongside a percussionist. This Dagstuhl report is probably the best intro to the state of the art: http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2014/4420/ Here's some links to media coverage: http://yaxu.org/interviews That said, live coding at a hackathon is exactly what I'll be doing this weekend: http://kairotic.org/hack-the-city/ There are sometimes time limits for live coding, for example in Mexico City they have events where people live code music from scratch, for around 5 minutes at a time. Best wishes, alex On 7 January 2015 at 14:29, Derek M Jones <de...@knosof.co.uk> wrote: > Alex, > >> More information, and the call for papers and performances, is available >> here: >> http://iclc.livecodenetwork.org/ > > > Excuse my ignorance, but what happens at a live coding event? > > Is it like a hackathon, except the code is displayed on a screen? > Do people get, say, 2 minutes to write something? > > -- > Derek M. Jones Software analysis > tel: +44 (0)1252 520667 blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com -- http://yaxu.org/
