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I mentioned already in the last post the work nx001_LiveCode by Miquel Parera. I couldn’t resist and write about this work a little bit longer because every time I hear this I can’t believe it’s just improvised code. Besides the music, the openness of this project is also amazing. The code is readable, created with the History class in SuperCollider and the samples also downloadable. There is nothing left one can wish for, except maybe more artwork or videos

I also think using FreeSound.org as an open platform for these free samples and Google documents for the code is a great idea to use this open services to share all this with the word. I started a few days ago also a kind of tool to facilitate the recording and publishing of live coding sessions. When I try to practice at home, sometimes one is too lazy or one can forget to turn on the History or the Server was turned on for recording but maybe one forget to click again to start the recording…. Also the recordings managing is tedious, and linking it with the History document is not a big deal, but hey, if one is going to be doing this more often, why not automate this? I think that won’t be the biggest problem. I could maybe rely on the engine of a friends tool to manage recordings (basic editing, compressing and mailing) and just add the history linking and instead of mailing, publishing to an FTP address in a directory with the current date. I mean, one can do all this manually, but I thought computer were also for facilitating and speeding up this kind of repetitive tasks.

So as I said it’s just an idea. I haven’t started it already, because maybe I’ll wait for the “RecordingManager” (don’t worry π I’m not trying to stress you) and take it as a model. It’s a very nice job, even if it’s still unpublished.

Anyway, I can just recommend this work and see and hear what live coding is and take advantage of this ‘openness’ and see and try to understand how it was done.