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)
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