LiveCoding - Ultra-Geeky Music Performance


For anyone that’s ever thought digital audio home recording enthusiasts were somewhat geeky, they should check out the DJs behind a new movement called "LiveCoding."  Get this, LiveCoders use Perl or homemade programming languages to create music from scratch, using raw code to generate audio for a live audience…while their computer screens are projected for the audience to see.

You can check out a (fuzzy) video clip of one such performance here.  A group called TOPLAP (temporary organization for the proliferation of live audio programming…or LAPTOP semi-backwards) currently has 200 members.  This can totally go mainstream…that is, as soon as PERL coding knowledge hits the masses.  Kinda cool either way.

(via Wired)

Posted to LiveCoding by Mike on
July 6, 2006
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