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All things livecoding

All things livecoding

A curated list of livecoding languages and tools

This list was created with the intention of giving a quick-glance over the many possibilities to engage in this practice. For further information, head over to TOPLAP.

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What is livecoding?

Quoting Wikipedia

Live coding (sometimes referred to as 'on-the-fly programming', 'just in time programming' and 'conversational programming') is a performing arts form and a creativity technique centred upon the writing of source code and the use of interactive programming in an improvised way.

Websites

  • TOPLAP, the home of Live Coding

Languages

(In Alphabetical Order)

  • Alda, a music programming language for musicians. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux FLOSS
  • ChucK, Strongly-timed, Concurrent, and On-the-fly Music Programming Language. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux FLOSS
  • Conductive, a set of Haskell libraries for livecoding and real-time music applications. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux haskell Supercollider FLOSS
  • Cyril, a programming language designed for fast prototyping of visualisations and livecoding visuals. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux openFrameworks FLOSS
  • Extempore, a programming language and runtime environment designed to support 'cyberphysical programming'. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux lisp FLOSS
  • Fluxus, a rapid prototyping, playing and learning environment for 3D graphics, sound and games. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux | Android | PS2 racket-lang lisp FLOSS
  • FoxDot, Live Coding with Python and SuperCollider. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux Python Supercollider FLOSS
  • Gibber, creative coding for JavaScript. Google Chrome | Mozilla Firefox web JavaScript FLOSS
  • Impromptu, an OSX programming language and environment for composers, sound artists, VJ's and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming. OS X lisp Closed source
  • ixi lang, an experimental project concerned with the creation of digital musical instruments and environments for generative music. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux Supercollider
  • LiveCodeLab, a web-based language and environment for VJs, musicians and graphic artists. Allows for immediate and engaging run-as-you-type prototyping, also used in education. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux web FLOSS
  • Max, a visual programming language for media. Windows | OS X graphical-language Commercial
  • Overtone, an open source audio environment designed to explore new musical ideas from synthesis and sampling to instrument building, live-coding and collaborative jamming. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux Supercollider lisp FLOSS
  • PraxisLive, hybrid visual IDE for live creative coding Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux Java Processing GLSL graphical-language FLOSS
  • Pure Data, an open source visual programming language that can be used to process and generate sound, video, 2D/3D graphics, and interface sensors, input devices, and MIDI. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux graphical-language FLOSS
  • Sonic Pi, the Live Coding music synth for everyone. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux Ruby Supercollider FLOSS
  • SuperCollider, a platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists, and researchers working with sound. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux FLOSS
  • TidalCycles, is a language for Live Coding pattern. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linxux Haskell Supercollider FLOSS
  • vvvv, a hybrid visual/textual live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux visual-language Freeware | Commercial
  • xi, a domain-specific language for Live Coding musical patterns in Ruby. Windows | OS X | GNU/Linux Ruby Supercollider FLOSS

Libraries and tools

  • Gibberwocky, use Gibber inside Max/MSP and Max4Live
  • s2hs2, an interface between TidalCycles and Processing
  • TidalUnity, an interface between TidalCycles and Unity 3D
  • Tidal-Unity, TidalCycles meets Unity 3D
  • WavTexture, a Unity example showing how to bake a waveform of an audio clip into a texture and use it in a shader
  • CHmUsiCK, library to make chucK a 'more algorave like' language
  • REPL Mode, this mode adds in a Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop console to Processing 3.0
  • KodeLife, Real-time GPU shader editor, live-code performance tool and graphics prototyping sketchpad
  • glslViewer, Live GLSL coding render for MacOS and Linux

To Watch

To Read

To Dance

  • Algorave, embrace the alien sounds of raves from the past, and introduce alien, futuristic rhythms and beats made through strange, algorithm-aided processes
  • Euleroom, algorithmic music streams, mainly live coded and/or algorave but possibly also stranger things

Conferences

  • ICLC, International Conference on Live Coding

Community

  • LiveCode Slack, enter your email address and you're ready to go! chat
  • LURK, a host for discussions around cultural freedom, experimental, new media art, net and computational culture, and things like that Mailing List
  • POTAC, Programing of The Art Computer, Weblog
  • /r/livecoding, the Live Coding subreddit

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