Live coders from all over the world are playing music and visuals live online, right now

It’s just business as usual for the live coding scene and algorave movement. From every corner of the globe, freely-coded performance is happening for four days straight – now. They come from Brasilia. They come from Detroit. They come from Indonesia and Antwerp, Ukraine and Mumbai, Rome and Miami and Japan. They’re running free software […]

mutateful is a must-have, free live coding tool for Ableton Live

mutateful brings live coding – real-time musical pattern manipulation, expressed as code – to Ableton Live. And it looks like a must-have for arrangement and composition, too. So yes, there are knobs and faders and pads and keys and wind inputs and whatnot for playing music live. And then there are the often clunky graphical […]

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2019

LiveCore is a free low-level, live patching for Reaktor

Reaktor lovers no longer have to be jealous of live coders – now they get a performance-ready, free, low-level tool of their own. Sonic mayhem awaits you.

Peter Kirn - September 20, 2019

A free, shared visual playground in the browser: Olivia Jack talks Hydra

Peter Kirn - February 22, 2019

Live coding group toplap celebrates days of live streaming, events

Peter Kirn - February 15, 2019

TidalCycles, free live coding environment for music, turns 1.0

Peter Kirn - December 18, 2018

Sharing Music’s Source Code: Event Pairs Performances with Code, Patches, Schematics

- October 23, 2012

Processing, Live: Popular Visual Code Tool, Meet Live-Coding and Clojure, Lisp

Peter Kirn - January 31, 2011

Thought and Performance, Live Coding Music, Explained to Anyone – Really

- July 6, 2010

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