The creative act of live coding practice in music performance
Other conference contribution, 2021

Live coding is the creative act of interactive code evaluations and online multimodal assessments. In the context of music performance, novel code evaluations are becoming part of the running program and are interrelated to acoustic sounds. Performers’ and audience ability to experience these novel auditory percepts may involuntary engage our attention. In this study, we discuss how live coding is related to auditory and motor perception and how gestural interactions may influence musical algorithmic structures. Furthermore, we examine how musical live coding practices may bring forth emergent qualities of musical gestures on potentially equivalent systems. The main contribution of this study is a preliminary conceptual framework for evaluation of live coding systems. We discuss several live coding systems which exhibit broad variations on the proposed dimensional framework and two cases which go beyond the expressive capacity of the framework.

auditory perception

music performance

live coding

musical gestures

motor perception

Author

Georgios Diapoulis

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction design

Palle Dahlstedt

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction design

PPIG 2021 - 32nd Annual Workshop, Doctoral Consortium
York, United Kingdom,

Subject Categories

Musicology

Music

Computer Science

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6/30/2022