awesome-livecoding
github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding ↗All things livecoding
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Installation instructions →What's inside
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. (inactive)
- Bacalao
A live-coding library for SuperCollider inspired by Tidalcycles syntax.
- Bitrhythm
A dsl inspired by bitpatterns and tracker notation to make music with javascript, midi, vsts and webaudio.
- Cane
A small MIDI sequencer DSL designed around vectors and euclidean rhythms.
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
Alan Blackwell, Alex McLean, James Noble, Julian Rohrhuber (2014).
- 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: A User's Manual
Open access book, published by MIT Press
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.
- archived on archive.orgPerformances, talks, etc
Over 1000 performances to watch! Also
- 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
- ANSIedad
Generate visuals through a terminal emulator using ANSI escape codes.
- Arcadia
Live coding Clojure in Unity3D.
- Arepl
Live coding Python in VSCode.
- Automationism
A modular synthesiser that runs in the open source programming language Pure Data.
- 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.
Community
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A curated list about Audio Visualization.
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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.
- Awesome SuperCollider
A curated list of SuperCollider stuff.
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