SHUNTCODE :: Part three in the first series of livecoded music events in London:: at Shunt lounge, London Bridge :: 10pm until late, this thursday 1st October, 2009

Live Coding Duet – ‘bang’ from Scott Hewitt on Vimeo.

Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is starting to get somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure.

As part of the din collective fest from thursday til saturday, the TOPLAP UK collective will live code beautiful music in the main bar in shunt lounge from 10pm until the early hours. There’ll be a lot of other nice music happening around shunt from 8pm. The line up will include: Thor Magnusson, Yeeking, Cane toad orchestra, Michele Pasin, MCLD, Slub, Jaganyax.

Shunt is the system of caverns through a passageway from Joiner Street, between London bridge tube and railway station.

More info: http://toplap.org/uk/

Live coding is inclusive and accessible to all. Many live coding environments can be downloaded and used for free, with documentation and examples to get you started and friendly on-line communities to help when you get problems. Popular live coding software includes supercollider, ChucK, impromptu and fluxus. Live patching is live coding with graph-based languages such as the venerable pure-data. It’s also possible to livecode with a gamepad, e.g. with the robot oriented Al-Jazari.— Haskell hackery by yaxu of slub