"What did 10 years of Algorave teach us about live coding?" - ON THE FLY NEWS

From the first live coding performances, which often took place in experimental or academic computer music concert settings, Algorave emerged to bring live coding into the night clubs for people to dance to. Now Algorave is 10 years old! What have we learned about live coding throughout this decade? How did Electronic Dance Music needs shape our live coding tools and practices? Did we break down the barriers between the people creating the software algorithms and the people making the music? Is Algorave still made from "sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive conditionals" or what actually is an Algorave after all?   Grab a drink of your choice, and come share your thoughts with us on 21 of March 8PM CET on  https://jitsi.hangar.org/ontheflycantina   Anne, Dare, Iván, Luka and Patrick (the on-the-fly research group)

Should we sometimes have live coding events without music just to focus on visuals? - ON THE FLY NEWS

While the techniques can be applied to all kinds of time based media, live coding visuals seems to be the second well-established discipline besides music. While outside the live coding community visualist and VJs still often struggle with not being mentioned at all on event flyers, visual live coders are given much more credit at Algoraves and related events. But while one usually would not let two distinct music acts play at the same time, visualists and musicians often get paired at random, both with their own artistic goals, aesthetics and flows that might not always go well together.   How do visualists (and musicians) approach these spontaneous moments of co-creation? Are the visuals just there to follow and enhance the music performance? Can we do it the other way around? Are audio-visual duos (or one-coder bands) the way to go? Or should we even dare to have live coding events with no music performers present at all to spotlight the visual live coders?   So grab a colourful (or deliberately monochromatic) drink of your choice, and come share your thoughts with us on February 21st at 8PM CEST on https://jitsi.hangar.org/ontheflycantina   Anne, Dare, Iván, Luka and Patrick (the on-the-fly research group)

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