This example is one of the “hello world” type scripts in fluxus, a recursive cube structure. It’s the first time I’ve tried this with scheme bricks. Having the interface in the same world as the rest of the objects opens up lots of possibilities, and enters the realm of IOhannes m zmölnig’s “do sinusoids dream of electric sweeps” performances in pure data – code could be written to modify the representation of itself.

Higher priority though, is to spend some time on making the interface itself easier to use :)

A picture from the livecoding workshop in Antwerp, the first time scheme bricks has been exposed to so many people. We covered various synthesis techniques, as well as introducing livecoding more generally. This has given me a lot of motivation to move this stuff further – I’m thinking of putting it in the fluxus distribution as an alternative livecoding option.

I’ve unified the maths operations, previously you had to remember if you were working on nodes or numbers (the only two types in fluxa) now you can just use the standard + – * / (before you had to use add sub mul div for graph nodes). This makes it much nicer to program. I’ve also replaced the asterisk in the font, the old one looked like a smudge on the screen.

This is all in preparation for a scheme bricks livecoding workshop I’m giving in a few weeks at the LAMBDA ELEKTRONISCH MUZIEKFESTIVAL.

In this paper we outline the issues surrounding live coding which is projected for an audience, and in this context, approaches to code visualisation. This includes natural language parsing techniques, using geometrical properties of space in language semantics, representation of execution flow in live coding environments, code as visual data and computer games as live coding environments. We will also touch on the unifying perceptual basis behind symbols, graphics, movement and sound.

The paper includes betablocker, daisy, al jazari and scheme bricks.

At Sign gallery Groningen, the Netherlands. I’m going to be doing a fluxus workshop with Gabor and a scheme bricks placard performance – the first one I’ve tried solo, I think!

chmod +x art The computer as theatre, as writer of love letters, the computer as world, a place for revolution, art as executable. chmod +x art presents artists that turn our ideas, dreams and fantasies about machines and code up side down and show programming as an infinitely intriguing way of creating. Code is a medium. Whether it is used to formulate instructions for a machine, ideas for people or both. The writing of it influences and shapes the creative process of the artist. For that reason, ghost programmers may be left at home. Besides the importance of writing code yourself, it is essential to show that code. Without source, software art remains a magic trick. Do It Yourself and show us your sh*t!

This class alone is 10,000 pixels high (captured using tiled-framedump in fluxus). I need to do something about collapsing lists, which are all vertical at the moment, into a horizontal form.