Notices by TOPLAP (toplap@social.toplap.org)

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 !

Big thanks to the previous website editor Luis Navarro Del Angel for tirelessly running the TOPLAP website as editor for many years!
We're now looking for someone to help update it and smooth some of the editing process, ideally someone with experience building wordpress websites. Please DM us or email toplap-social@mail.slab.org if you can help!
To be clear, TOPLAP is entirely volunteer-run and so this is unpaid.

Planning a live coding event or algorave? Be sure to post the event to https://blog.toplap.org/ , and as a bonus it'll be automatically shared on the @blog feed here on the fediverse

The influx of livecoding communities + projects to the fediverse continues! So far we know of these livecode related communities:

* Barcelona: @toplap_bcn
* Bogotá: @bogota
* Colectivo de Live Coders (Argentina): @clic_livecoding
* Creative coding Utrecht: @creativecoding
* Karlsruhe: @toplap_ka
* livecodenyc: @livecodenyc
* Madrid: @mad
* México: @toplapmx
* Netherlands coding live: @nl_cl
* Pattern Club Sheffield: @patternclubsheffield
* Slovenski: @slovenski_toplap

and the following projects:

* Animatron: @animatron
* Bubo tools (topos and sardine): @bubotools
* Eulerroom (live streams): @eulerroom
* Facet: @facet
* Gibber: @gibber
* Mercury: @mercury
* Strudel: @strudel
* TidalCycles: @tidalcycles
* vvvv @vvvv

Plus @algorave.. Who are we missing?