#toplap20 #toplap #livecoding

Archive recordings of TOPLAP20 are now available:

YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMBIpibV-wQLPC6cyFJuYjTxjmcujMOL2

Internet Archive
https://archive.org/search?query=TOPLAP20

We are still working to resolve issues with the following recordings and hope to have them available in a few days.

TOPLAP Athens
TOPLAP Karlsruhe
TOPLAP Bogotá
PitchGlitch
lixt

Big shoutout to @sfradkin for all his great work on these!

#toplap20 #toplap #livecoding

Thanks to everyone for a great 20th Birthday Party!!!

Stats
~ 130 creative coders
~ 32 hours of live coding
10 local groups
17 countries: France, India, Greece, Chile, Mexico, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Finland, Columbia, UK, Perú, Spain, USA, Brazil, Solvenia, Italy (apologies if any are missing!)

There are many people to thank. On the admin and infrastructure side: @munshkr @sfradkin @highharmonics @cleary @yaxu. A lot of work particularly by @munshkr to get a new streaming host set up with improvements and new features. (It really paid off - the stream stability was so nice.) Anything missed? Apologies!

TOPLAP Group organizers
Karlsruhe: Jia Liu
Cookie Collective: Bubobubo
Barcelona: Lina Bautista
Athens: aucotsi
Slovenia: Luka Prinčič
Bogotá: garabato, Alexandra Cárdenas
Newcastle Creative Code Club: Shelly Knotts
Berlin: crcdng, Gábor Ugray
Brazil + Portugal: lixt
Mexico: CNDSD, Iván Abreu

And of course, thanks to yaxu, well... for everything!

#toplap20 #livecoding

I was part of the admin team and was an organizer for TOPLAP20 this past weekend. I'm inspired to share some of my initial thoughts - also I hope to write more once the archives are out.

I'm in awe of this format of marathon streaming events. So many amazing performances - and just the sheer range and diversity of what live coding is and how people embrace and explore innovation and creativity. Wow. Wow.

Local Group presentations - this was a huge success - huge! It shows how live coding flourishes when practiced together.

"Show your screens" is alive and well, and this mantra is morphing into something much larger -> show your whole performance, show yourself, show your community. People being vulnerable, embracing error.

It was also a lot of work - more than I realized it would be. But the payoffs are huge, really big.

I come away with a real sense of connection - to people, to groups, and to live coding itself. I feel less alone. Being an organizer makes me engage more deeply with people, the processes, and the artifacts we leave behind. Quite unexpectedly it is changing my thoughts and plans for my own live coding practice -- and that is a wonderful thing!

It would be awesome to do global live streaming events more often - but it would take more people to step up and help. So think about it. Think about how contributing just might change you.

thoughts, responses, suggestions, complaints -- all welcome. Just hit reply!

Started the morning today with wild sounds and embracing errors on the 20 years of @toplap stream

#embraceerrors #algorave #livecoding #algorithmicmusic #tidalcycles #maxmsp #computermusic #toplap20

Today, from 12:00 to 14:00 (UTC+1), we'll be streaming our contribution to the #toplap20 birthday stream, live from the TOPLAP Barcelona headquarters!

Tune in at https://live.eulerroom.com or stop by in person, if you're in the area!

#toplap #livecoding

Looking forward to joining @creativecodeclub_ncl for @toplap's #toplap20 livecoding stream.
We have a slot on Saturday, 6-7:30pm UTC.
Expect a mix of 15 minute sessions 🥳

I've been doing some major refactoring work on Mantratronic's brilliant VJ-80 software - live VJ visuals with FFT response, running on #TIC80 - so I hope to be juicing that to the fullest while my fellows drop dope music.

Our group includes @vegemitepumpkin and folks not on the Fedi!
#liveCoding #demoscene #algorave

#toplap #toplap20 #livecoding

TOPLAP20 Friday - Sunday
Join us as we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of TOPLAP.

Stream Viewing https://live.eulerroom.com/

Fri 6 pm UTC - Open Meetup
The event kicks off with informal chat about TOPLAP - Then and Now with Alex McClean, Julian Rohrhuber, Sarah Groff-Palermo, Iannis Zannos, Alexandra Cárdenas, Shelly Knots + you! Everyone welcome.

Fri 8 pm UTC - Sun 6:30 am UTC
Live Stream - Live coding artists / performers from around the world in 15 min slots.

Lineup / Registration: https://eulerroom.com/
Note: Some open slots are still available.

Participation from local TOPLAP and creative coding groups includes:

Fri Feb 23
20 – 22:00 (8 – 10 pm) toplap Karlsruhe

Sat Feb 24 UTC
9 – 11:00 am Cookie Collective (FR)
11 – 13:00 toplap Barcelona
13 – 14:00 toplap Athens
14 – 15:00 toplap Slovenia
15 – 17:45 toplap Bogotá
18 – 19:30 Newcastle Creative Code Club
19:30 – 20:00 OpenGuitar
20 – 21:00 toplap Berlin
22:30 – 01:00 toplap Brazil + Portugal

@athens @toplap_bcn @bogota
@clic_livecoding @creativecodeclub_ncl @creativecoding @toplap_dus
@FieldFX @toplap_ka @incolico @livecodenyc @mad
@toplapmx @nl_cl @patternclubsheffield @toplap_si
@animatron @bubotools @eulerroom @facet @gibber @hydra @megra @mercury @strudel @synte @tidalcycles

#livecoding #toplap #toplap20

TOPLAP20 Live Stream is now open for individual registration: https://eulerroom.com/

Event Details: https://blog.toplap.org/2024/01/20/toplap20-events-feb-23-25/

Local groups that requested group slots have been created:

@toplap_bcn @bogota @toplap_ka @athens @toplap_si
Cookie Collective @creativeCodeBLN @creativecodeclub_ncl Open Guitar

Note: please use #toplap20 in any posts or DMs about this. Thks