Livecoding, because it directly translates our ideas into sounds and/or visuals, is one of the most natural ways of performing. Because it opens up the creative process to the audience it’s also one of the most engaging ones…. At least that’s how I imagine a ideal world. In reality I often start out with what sounds like a good idea that turns out to only be half a idea, which will need some bit of the language I won’t know by heart.
Then there will be errors. Lots of them. And cursing.
A few days ago I made a banner;
To explain for international readers ; “bouwt” means “builds”, though in Dutch, at the end of a sentence it could also be read as a order; “build!”. I made this impulsively in the then freshly squatted Asta (a former cinema, now a unused dance club here in The Hague, lately squatted,in protest, by a group of local cultural organisations). I’d like to talk for a moment about the process of making it.
The 14th of this month (next Wednesday) I’ll be talking about livecoding at Steim’s night of “niche music”. Of course I’ll illustrate this with a brief piece in ChucK. Should be fun.
Two days ago I was taking a mid-night walk with my friend Dusk. In returning home we walked along a canal as it had interesting public art that he hadn’t seen yet and a petting zoo (closed for the winter still,it turned out. This also happened to be one of the poorer neighbourhoods around here.
What more could you want? Booze, I suppose, so you could bring some. Or company, you can bring that too.
Friday, 26 March 2010 at 20:00
Andergrond
Herderinnestraat 16
Den Haag, Netherlands
I’ll be presenting the “Gate” installation that I made last summer as well as project a version of my Fluxus village that should react to the sound. This will hopefully turn the exhibition onto a sort of playground. If it all gets done in time….
herderinnestraat 16 – den haag
Stop by.
Playing a live gig tag-teaming with Rob Bothof at Smart Project Space. Details here.
Rob&me have been playing sets each using our own homebrew sequencer and taking turns playing a song. We find that more interesting than playing a solo set each; at times we challenge each other, at other moment we can act as a safety net.
Stop by if you’re around.
> Sweet, you’re trying it with LuaJIT! In the README where I say “try
> LuaJIT for extra speed” I really mean it. If you TRY it, I’m very
> interested in how it works out.
Ok, so this is “bleeding edge” in the sense that actual cutting will
be done. Ok, got that. And I don’t know Lua. And I only understand the
bits of C++ that work like ChucK. Great, business as usual, then. I’ll
try this normally first and if that doesn’t work we’ll add fire to the
situation and see whether that improves anything.
I’m spinning at De Ilussie (casuaristraat, The Hague) new year’s eve. Expect lofi-cheerfulness. Rumour has it there will be fairly big entry fee but from there on drinks are free. That should be fun/a mess/both.
Played a all acoustical set at Tonka with Robber&Jamie last Tuesday. The inspiration for this was how the studio used to be a huge mess with many a odd object in it. Robber&me were wondering whether we couldn’t make music with those, saving the need to haul around so much gear. Another matter is that it’s so easy to become dependant on automation and it’d be interesting to play without any.
Into the second hour, however, when looking for something new to make a sound with, my eye was struck by the turntables. I ended up putting some objects (a can and a empty beer bottle) on them and hanging others from wires attached to mic stands right above them. Then, instead of playing, I stood back to admire the resultant system. I now wonder whether I’m very consistent or merely set in my ways.
The question would bother me more if we hadn’t had so much fun, I think.
More editing; corrected link
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