Festival of Ideas: Discover Musical Live Coding
Come and discover how to use simple computer coding to make music!
Live Coding is the musical practice of performing with computers to make music, using code as an instrument. Live Coders use specially designed programming languages to improvise electronic music. In performance, they write and modify algorithms that generate music, and project their code on-stage to the audience. Live Coding is an artform that has spread worldwide, and also moved into clubland, where you can find musicians improvising electronica at 'Algoraves'.
At University of Sussex, we’ve been researching live coding since its inception: we perform, write code, create new software and design new machines. We’d like to share this research with you at a taster session at the legendary Volks Club on the seafront. Drop in anytime to come and try out live coding music and audiovisuals. No experience needed, there will be clear examples to try out and we’ll be there to guide you into making music with your first lines of code. There will also be short demo performances scheduled throughout the day. Everyone welcome!
A collaboration with the University of Sussex, Festival of Ideas harnesses the transformative power of the arts and humanities to fashion new ways of thinking about the past, present and future.
