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The TOPLAP live coding community is 20 years old today!

We were born in a smokey bar in Hamburg on 14th Feb 2004, at the end of the Changing Grammars symposium, which had the following description:

"Some computer languages allow changing a running process on the fly by rewriting the code that defines it. Applied to computer music this means that one can write sound compositions while they are already playing.

This meeting will focus on collaborative process of live programming in computer networks. We will also discuss the implications of programming language seen not mainly
as a tool to create programs that can then be used to produce sound, but in its potential to immediately form the changing grammar of sounds.

Moving away from the idea of the program as a tool towards the idea of code as conversation, a scientific and poetic discourse about acoustic phenomena, their perception and their description."
https://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de/MusicTechnology/609

Happy birthday to live coders everywhere !