Hydra Livecoding Session With Video

Made while I was ill and sequestering in my friends’ guest room in a cabin in New Hampshire. This is the first time I realized I could open a stream to one longer video, and access different points of the stream dynamically (I initially imported a lot of short clips, which was not workable memory-wise and reliably crashed the browser). tois is an array of “times of interest” that I preselected based on familiarity with the video. I’m playing mostly with layering and playbackRate, which I find to be an effective modulator when combined with the FFT of the audio playing. ...

Livecoding SFPC class 1

Thoughts on reading from ‘Live-Coding: A User’s Manual’. The reading My favorite is the “thinking in public” definition. I like to interpret this as working through problems while the audience has transparency to what you are doing. If there isn’t the observed tackling of an issue, then it’s just the performance of a known process (which itself is also interesting… I love process videos on instagram that document cooking or carpentry – however I think these process videos aren’t live-coding if you aren’t allowing the audience to see the process in real-time). [For this reason I often like to incorporate a constraint or a challenge during my devised live-coding performances, because I want the audience to see me struggle in the process.] ...