or livecode embodied

Livecoding performance with SuperCollider, using the laptop and the act of livecoding as the sole material.

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Code LiveCode Live rehearsal between Montreal and New York

The concept of this livecoding performance is to only use the sound of the typing on the keyboard of the laptop as the source material for the audio in the performance. Furthermore, the sensing devices embedded in the laptop (e.g. accelerometers, touchpad, trackpoint, camera, the keyboard) are made accessible and mapped (through livecoding) to the manipulation of the sound material. Also the processes of the code itself (e.g. their memory and cpu usage) are used as sensors and used in the performance. As such the performance of livecoding is influenced through its own side effects, transforming the code not only in the common logical, programmatical manner, but as an embodied interface of the machine on our lap.

Video:

10 Minute Livecoding Challenge S01E11 - Marije Baalman from CCU on Vimeo.

Live code rehearsal on a Greyhound bus between Montreal and New York

A small snippet of the performance at MakeArt is in the documentary “Show us your screens” by Louis McCallum and Davy Smith.

Performances

  • 10 minute livecoding challenge, Creative Coding Utrecht, Utrecht, NL, June 2020
  • Solo concert, MAMCS, Strasbourgh, FR, November 2014
  • RMLL free software festival, Strasbourgh, FR, July 2011
  • La Generale, Paris, FR, July 2011
  • DNK, Smart project space, Amsterdam, NL, May 2011
  • Kiberpipa, Ljubljana, Slovenia, February/March 2011
  • Make ART festival, Poitiers, FR, November 2010
  • Linux Audio Conference, Utrecht, NL, May 2010
  • NIME conference, at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 2009
  • SuperCollider Symposium, at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA, April 2009