\sum_{mind} (i.e. sum of minds, pronounced "sum over mind"), an experimental 20-minute set written in TidalCycles, a live-coding environment.

Written for, performed, and recorded live at Elektromagnetni Eksoni, a music and visual live-coding event hosted in Ljubljana, organized by toplap.si, a Slovene live-coding collective.

sum over mind (live) | Peakpot
https://peakpot.bandcamp.com/album/sum-over-mind-live

#music #electronicMusic #LiveCoding @toplap_si #topLap

SORGENTE scaturirà a ottobre 2025 presso Art Lab, nella ridente città di #parma . L'idea è quella di esplorare collettivamente la filosofia e la pratica del #livecoding in linea con i principi e le linee guida di #toplap .

- Accesso libero, gratuito e aperto a tutti;
- Software altrettanto libero, #opensource ;
- Nessun prerequisito tecnico o culturale;
- Fai quello che vuoi.

Alle sessioni di studio e sperimentazione seguiranno bei momenti di dimostrazione e celebrazione. VIENI L'UNDICI.

The #WeekEndJam adjusts for Daylight Savings time!
Now running at UTC 1900h instead of UTC 2000h - hopefully if you weren't able to come and jam previously this might make it easier!

Everyone is welcome, come along and have some fun 😁
(Announcements go out on the #strudel #tidal #toplap #hydra #mercury #estuary etc discords each week)

Bonus banger #livecoding jam from today featuring @lanegramvp @mot4i lilbleep nairobiny and @cleary
#strudel #flok #punctual #mercury #algorave

https://youtu.be/xVvU-dQtslM?si=FXTvMoFLObBUWNFo

just watched an #artetv #documentary about #algorave and #livecoding

with @renick @flopineyeah @azertype

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/126484-002-A/tracks/
#arteultras #arte #artetracks #toplap #pastagang

ALPACA 2025 / Watch Party in Clubraum 19-20. Sept 2025

servus clubraum, Friday, September 19 at 11:30 AM GMT+2

Join us on September 19th and 20th in STWST for the watch party for Alpaca 2025 - algorithmic patterns in the creative arts!
Where: Servus Lecture Room, Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse, Linz

Alpaca conference will feature 35 speakers and workshop leaders exploring algorithmic patterns in the creative arts, showcasing pattern-based work across music, textiles, dance and more.
Patterns are a kind of heritage algorithm, and so we will showcase both heritage and digital arts and crafts together. Despite the inclusion of contemporary digital arts, our focus will be fully on hands-on, human creativity and not artificial intelligence.

The event will showcase work across disciplines, featuring diverse talks, workshops, and performances exploring how we can explore beyond our imaginations through pattern-making.
The conference will take place over two weekends. You will be able to join all talks online.

The first weekend will focus on talks hosted in Sheffield UK, as part of the Alpaca Festival programme based there.
The second weekend will focus on on-line talks, with ‘watch parties’ in Berlin, Barcelona, Linz and Sheffield.

19 September (Europe/Vienna time): 1:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

Session 7 – chair Alex McLean
1:30 p.m. – Algorithmic Archaeology of Folk Motifs: Nature, Code, and Cultural Memory – Nicu Popescu
1:55 p.m. – Arche-Scriptures: Ceramics as a Speculative Medium for Digital Memory – Alberto Harres
2:20 p.m. – TTT2: The Woven Skin — Coding and Signifying Through a (Proto) Writing (From a Constellation of Language-s) – Maria Jose Rios Araya
Session 8
2:55 p.m. – Talavera de Luz – Renovación de nuestra Herencia – Leon Eckard
3:20 p.m. – Patterns in Inflected Julia Sets – Claude Heiland-Allen
3:45 p.m. – Thinking About Fractals (Fabric is Fractal) – Patricia Bentley
Session 9
4:20 p.m. – Algorithmic Two-Step – Stuart Smith
4:45 p.m. – Printed Patterns – Blair Subbaraman
5:10 p.m. – Taking Inspiration from Biochemistry: Small Things with Small Forces forming Complex Patterns – Kristin Henry
5:35 p.m. – Performance: Flux – Ranura Vacia

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20 September (Europe/Vienna time) 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

Keynote
11:00 a.m. – Endosymbiotic Computation – Unlearning Alpaca and Why Dissipation is Key.. – Shintaro Miyazaki
Session 10
11:50 a.m. – Pulse, Pattern, Permutation: Applying Schillinger’s Pulse Interference in Computer-Assisted Composition – David Chechelashvili, Alan Brown
12:15 p.m. – Multi-directional pattern repeats – an alternative method for pattern repetition – Tonje Kristensen Johnstone
12:40 p.m. – MultiWeave. Knight’s Tour and Other Sources of Inspiration – Kadi Pajupuu
Performance
1:30 p.m. – Procedural pulse – mot4i
Session 11
2:00 p.m. – pSine waves: introducing Lp-Spaces for Sound and Graphics – Sol Sarratea
2:25 p.m. – Algorithmic Knitting Design: Integrating algorithmic computing, fashion design and handknitting – Stephanie Pan

Alpaca 2025 is funded as part of the UK Research and Innovation Future Leader Fellowship “Algorithmic Pattern”, hosted by independent research studio Then Try This.

Alpaca Festival Sheffield organising team
Sheffield-based festival activities are hosted by Ray Morrison, Lucy Cheesman, Alex McLean and Hazel Ryan, of Sheffield Pattern Club.

The watch party in Linz is hosted by TOPlap Linz https://social.toplap.org/@linz

Full info: https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/

https://kulturkarte.servus.at/event/alpaca-2025-watch-party-in-clubraum-19-20-sept-2025

"I threw together a rough quick funny Thingee that’s a livecode editor and VJ instrument — both at the same time. You type the code on the screen, and it actually executes the code as you type it, but all the visuals are made of the onscreen code too, though I’m experimenting with including the ability to pull in the whole desktop sometimes as well. It generously abuses the concept of feedback; in this case, the whole thing’s a feedback loop anyway. This is somehow reassuring because the concept of video feedback in digital VJ tools always disturbs me a little — since computers have no optics they can’t “see” their own output as did the original video feedback with cameras. I lie awake nights worrying about this."

—Amy Alexander: The Thingee, 2004

https://zenodo.org/records/7139247/

(via @polymorphic_engine - https://social.toplap.org/@polymorphic_engine/115156784858963799)

#TopLap #LiveCoding

so how do we write it?

plz boost 

#toplap #algorave #liveCode #liveCoding