The latest issue of the Computer Music Journal is now available, and it includes a DVD full of livecoding bonanza. Because this is the Winter issue, it includes the annual CMJ DVD, whose program notes appear near the end of the issue. The curators for the compositions on this year’s DVD are specialists in live [...]

I bookmarked this article on createdigitalmusic.com a while ago (it’s from Jul 2010) and ran into it again today.. “Thought and Performance, Live Coding Music, Explained to Anyone – Really” contains several simple but thought provoking ideas about livecoding and its relevance in the (traditional) music world. Here’s a couple of excerpts: Secrets such as [...]

Some time ago I’ve been experimenting with the processing and display of RSS feeds within Impromptu, and as a result I built a small app that retrieves the news feed from The Guardian online and displays on a canvas. I’ve got a bit of free time in the next couple of weeks, so last night [...]

An article by Michael Edwards on algorithmic composition has been published last month on the Communications of the ACM journal. The article is titled Algorithmic Composition: Computational Thinking in Music. Although the article is quite introductory (Edwards makes it clear that the article “is more illustrative than all-inclusive, presenting examples of particular techniques and some [...]

I am certainly not an anime expert – but after being in Japan for a couple of months last year I started developing an appreciation for this form of art. In particular, I fell in love with the work of Studio Ghibli, the Tokyo-based animation film studio which includes award director Hayao Miyazaki. The other [...]

Two livecoding concerts coming up in the next days: – 9/7/11: A gig in Paris at La Generale, “Laboratoire artistique, politique et social”. 14, avenue Parmentier Paris XIe, Métro Voltaire (facebook | lastfm) – 11/7/11: A workshop+gig at the 2011 Libre Software Meeting in Stransbourg (event page | facebook | lastfm). I’m going to play [...]

Just ran into this interesting article by Brian Eno. It struck me as quite a fair representation of what livecoders do most of the time, when they create (maybe I should say ‘sculpt’) musical structures that evolve in time, as part of their performance: It’s intuitive to think that anything complex has to be made [...]

I found out here and there on the web that Islandic artist Bjork is once again pushing the boundaries of experimental music by relasing a new album, Biophilia, which will be composed by both music and interactive media, in the form of an iPad app: Biophilia for iPad will include around 10 separate apps, all [...]

I haven’t realized that Chrome has a whole bunch of invisible experimental settings that you can turn on just by going to “about:flags“.     Some of them will open up the musical capabilities of html5, which are pretty cool. Example, once you switch on the ‘web-audio‘ setting on Chrome, if you use a suitable [...]

Impromptu 2.5 has been out for a while now but I’ve never realised it contained this new handy feature: an ‘error hook’: The interpreter will now throw to an error hook providing you with greater control over exception handling. You initiate the livecoding error hook by calling (sys:livecoding-error-hook #t). Errors are then passed to the [...]