Live coding the code: an environment for 'meta' live code performance

Live coding languages operate by constructing and reconstructing a program designed to create sound. These languages often have domain-specific affordances for sequencing changes over time, commonly described as patterns or sequences. Rarely are these affordances completely generic. Instead, live coders work within the constraints of their chosen language, sequencing parameters the language allows with timing that the language allows. This paper presents a novel live coding environment for the existing language lissajous that allows sequences of text input to be recorded, replayed, and manipulated just like any other musical parameter. Although initially written for the lissajous language, the presented environment is able to interface with other browser-based live coding languages such as Gibber. This paper outlines our motivations behind the development of the presented environment before discussing its creative affordances and technical implementation, concluding with a discussion on a number of evaluation metrics for such an environment and how the work can be extended in the future

MosAIck: Staging Contemporary AI Performance - Connecting Live Coding, E-Textiles and Movement

This paper introduces our collective work “Patterns in Between Intelligences”, a performance piece that builds an artistic practice between live coding sounds and coding through dance, mediated and shaped through e-textile sensors. This creates a networked system of which both live coded processes and human bodies are part. The paper describes in detail the implementations of technology used in the prototype performance performed at No Bounds Festival in Sheffield UK, October 2022, as well as discussions and concerns the team had related to the use of AI technology on stage. The paper concludes with a narrative reflection on the Sheffield performance, and reflections on it

Community Report: LivecoderA

In March of 2022, LivecoderA, a new live coding community came into being, coalescing around the need to recognize a specific cohort of live coders who identify as women. The group is inherently feminist and intersectional, and its creation was motivated by many desires. Among them: solidarity and visibility, to be counted as sisters, and to reflect to each other the strength of our numbers. A manifesto and several events have since been produced, and the community is active online while also making more in-person connections whenever possible through the coordination of gigs, residencies and meetups. At the time of publishing, the community connects through Telegram and Discord, with channels consisting of 48 and 27 members respectively