Thanks for the links! What do you mean by "live coding" and "software engineering"? (your 2nd paragraph) Do people write non-music/media code in a live setting?
-svec Christopher Svec Senior Principal Software Engineer iRobot On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:41 AM, alex <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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/ >
