awesome-livecoding
github.com/eric-erki/awesome-livecoding ↗All things livecoding
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Languages
- afterglow
A live-coding lighting controller, building on the Open Lighting Architecture with Clojure and bits of Overtone.
- Alda
A music programming language for musicians.
- Atomiix
A re-implementation and re-invigoration of ixi lang.
- ChucK
Strongly-timed, Concurrent, and On-the-fly Music Programming Language.
- clive
Live-coding audio in C.
- Conductive
A set of Haskell libraries for livecoding and real-time music applications.
To Read
- Alex McLean's publications
Conference papers, book chapters and journal articles.
- Algorave: the live coding movement that makes next-level electronic music
MixMag magazine article about live coding (2017).
- Collaboration and learning through live coding
Blackwell, Alan ; McLean, Alex ; Noble, James ; Rohrhuber, Julian.
- Herding Cats: Observing Live Coding in the Wild
Thor Magnusson - Department of Music - University of Sussex.
- howto_co34pt_liveCode
Guide on how to live code in SuperCollider based on the performance practice of live coder co￥ﾡpt.
- Live Coding Mailing List Archive
A piece of history.
To Dance
- Algorave
Embrace the alien sounds of raves from the past, and introduce alien, futuristic rhythms and beats made through strange, algorithm-aided processes.
- Algorave Guidelines
Guidelines to host an Algorave.
- Eulerroom
Algorithmic music streams, mainly live coded and/or algorave but possibly also stranger things.
To Watch
- Algorave - Algorithmic dance culturePerformances, talks, etc
Alex McLean.
- Algorave GenerationDocumentaries and features
Resident Advisor.
- Algorithms are Thoughts, Chainsaws are ToolsDocumentaries and features
A short film on livecoding presented as part of the Critical Code Studies Working Group, March 2010, by Stephen Ramsay.
- Arte Tracks - Live coding and AlgoravePerformances, talks, etc
Live coding and Algorave
- ComputerMusic(now)Performances, talks, etc
Andrew Sorensen.
- Hacking ChoreographyPerformances, talks, etc
A live coded dance performance.
Libraries and tools
- Arcadia
Live coding Clojure in Unity3D.
- blink
A library which allows you to edit source code of any Windows C++ project live at runtime.
- Bonzomatic
GLSL and HLSL live coding environment, originally designed for live coding competitions at demoparties.
- CHmUsiCK
Library to make ChucK a 'more algorave like' language.
- cl-collider
A SuperCollider client for CommonLisp.
- dafxpipe
Software for live coding audio effects and synths.
Related lists
- Awesome Audio visualization
A curated list about Audio Visualization.
- Awesome Creative Coding
Creative Coding, Generative Art, Interaction Design, Resources.
- Awesome Live Coding Music
A curated list of awesome Music Live Coding Music environments, libraries and talks.
- Awesome Music
A categorized collection of awesome music libraries, tools, frameworks and software.
- awesome-musicdsp
A curated list of Oli Larkin's favourite music DSP and audio plug-in frameworks.
- Programming Languages Used for Music
An historical list of languages to produce music.
Community
- CHAT
A host of many (slack-like) active chat rooms around live coding activities, topics and technologies. (formerly at talk.lurk.org)
- FORUM
A web-based 'discourse' forum for in-depth discussion and exchange around live coding. (formerly found at toplap.lurk.org)
- LiveCoders
A semi-curated, rather incomplete list of people doing live coding in the performing arts.
- POTAC
Programing of The Art Computer. (inactive)
- /r/livecoding
The Live Coding subreddit.
- We.LURK
An email-based discussion system including several livecoding and algorave related forums.
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