Name: on-the-fly: Live-Coding Hacklab
Start: 28.01.2022 - 00:00
End: 30.01.2022 - 00:00

Join the »on-the-fly: Live Coding Hacklab« 2022! From January 28-30, 2022, all coding enthusiasts can program collaboratively with international experts. The weekend will be opened by a variety of exciting live coding performances.

The Hacklab will connect live coding with areas ranging from machine learning to spatial sound to programming visuals. There will also be a special on the format of Algorave. Each of these areas will be supervised by international mentors: Alexandra Cárdenas, Anna Xambó Sedó, Antonio Roberts, Iván Paz, Lina Bautista and Marije Baalman.

On the occasion of and during the two-day Hacklab, live coding masterclasses (with Shelly Knotts, Olivia Jack and Kıvanç Tatar) and workshops for beginners (children, teenagers and adults) will be offered. The results of the workshops will be presented in evening presentations and »from scratch sessions«.

The event will kick off on Friday, January 28 with several live coding performances that offer a wide range of different aesthetics and approaches to the audiovisual performance art. We are very pleased to present CodeKlavier, Luka Prinčič and Blaz Pavlica as well as our Artists in Residence Malitzin Cortés & Iván Abreu, Gaia Leandra and Kıvanç Tatar via livestream.

The Hacklab and the live coding performances are part of the project »on-the-fly« and co-funded by the European Union's »Creative Europe« program. With »on-the-fly«, ZKM, Hangar Barcelona, Creative Coding Utrecht and Ljudmila Art + Science Laboratory have made it their goal to foster the European live coding scene.

Registration

We are happy if you would like to participate in the »on-the-fly: Live Coding Hacklab«.
Register for free and binding at on-the-fly@zkm.de.
Please reference the format(s) in which you plan to participate:

Hacklab
Masterclass Shelly Knotts / Olivia Jack / Kıvanç Tatar
Workshop Kids / Teens

(No registration is required for the concert evening with live coding performances on Friday).

Notes on the Corona situation

The »on-the-fly: Live Coding Hacklab« takes place in present as a 2G+ event (vaccinated or recovered and additionally tested negative (within the last 24h)) and in a purposefully small setting. Should current regulations tighten further, we reserve the right to move program items into the digital space.

Further Information for your visit

Program

Friday, January 28, 2022

»on-the-fly: Live-Coding Hacklab« Opening Concert
at 7 pm, via livestream

A diverse live-coding concert program will kick off the »on-the-fly: Live-Coding Hacklab« at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Top-class international guests will present their individual approaches to the performance art of live-coding during this concert.

The Concert Program

- CodeKlavier, »ARquatic«, (2019 – 21), ca. 15’
- »ARquatic« by CodeKlavier is an audio and augmented reality experience in which live music is transformed into fantasy plants that unfold in front of the audience’s eyes. As the name suggests, CodeKlavier allows Dutch pianist Anne Veinberg to program through her playing. Together with Felipe Ignacio Noriega and Patrick Borgeat (HfM Karlsruhe) she developed the piece »ARquatic«, with which the concert evening begins.
  To experience the visuals in augmented reality, please download the ARquatic app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. On the day of the performance, you will find both a live and stream channel there. Please connect to the stream channel if you are watching the stream from home.
- Kıvanç Tatar »Coding the Latent No. 1«, (2022), ca. 20', (binaural) Premiere
- Kıvanç Tatar invites the audience into a 'glitchy' and noisy world of AI-synthesized sounds distributed on 47 speakers with his piece 'Coding the Latent No.1'. His live performance combines live coding with artificial intelligence-based audio generation. (binaural; premiere)
- Luka Prinčič »Brief Intro to Piano is Forte Memory«, (2022), 15’ Premiere
- The composition »Brief Intro to Piano is Forte Memory« is based on a childhood memory of Slovenian live coder Luka Prinčič. The piece, which will premiere at the concert, is a live coded, partially improvised composition that recalls the protected spaces of childhood and the perceived trust therein. (premiere)
- Blaz Pavlica »Modulating Spaces«, Improvisation, 20', (binaural)
- »Modulating Spaces« is a live coded spatial audio performance by Blaž Pavlika. Spatial sound opens up a multitude of possibilities to work with sound as a physical medium. Live coding, in turn, makes it possible to shape the medium »on-the-fly«. A virtual spherical sound space is created, which is constantly reshaped with each performance. (binaural)
- CNDSD & Iván Abreu »autoconstruccion«, (2021-22), 18’30’’ Premiere
- For the project »autoconstruccion« CNDSD & Iván Abreu explore the architectural notion of autoconstruction using machine learning processes. This results in the almost cinematographic design of a three-dimensional virtual environment coupled to a binaural musical narrative. (premiere)
- Gaia Leandra »Necrobiopsi«, (2021), ca. 9’
- The concert concludes with the presentation »Necrobiopsi«, a bio-art project by Gaia Leandra that develops new narratives at the intersection of art and science. Against the backdrop of planetary change, Leandra contemplates the invisible micro-world of organisms and ponders an age after humankind.

The QR code for »ARquatic« by CodeKlavier

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Saturday, January 29 & Sunday, January 30, 2022

Live Coding Hacklab, starts at 1 pm
for all coding enthusiasts
#machinelearning #visuals #algorave #spatialaudio

Mentors:

Anna Xambó Sedo
Alexandra Cárdenas
Antonio Roberts
Iván Paz
Lina Bautista
Marije Baalman

Following both days, the results will be presented in »from scratch sessions« by the mentors and participants.

Masterclasses by

Shelly Knotts on machine listening (Basics in programming required)	Saturday, 10–12am *– booked out –*
Olivia Jack on Hydra (Basics in programming required)	Sunday, 10–12 am *– booked out –*
Kıvanç Tatar on »Hacking Deep Learning with Live Coding For Latent Sound Design« (Basics in programming required)	Sunday, 10–12 am

Intro Workshops

»Code your Bot @Hacklab«

For Kids without
previous knowledge

Saturday, 11 am – 1 pm

with Indra Scheible

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»Print your own Code«

For Teens and Adults
without
previous knowledge

Sunday, 2– 5 pm

with Andreas Kugel

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Information about the required equipment will be communicated upon registration.

Marije Baalman
Lina Bautista
Alexandra Cárdenas
Olivia Jack
Shelly Knotts
Iván Paz
Antonio Roberts
Kıvanç Tatar
Anna Xambó Sedó

Marije Baalman
Lina Bautista
Alexandra Cárdenas
Olivia Jack
Shelly Knotts
Iván Paz
Antonio Roberts
Kıvanç Tatar
Anna Xambó Sedó

Profiles

- Marije Baalman
- I am traveling to ZKM | Karlsruhe from:
  Amsterdam
  
  My personal style of live coding is:
  The works I have made that involve live coding are mostly conceptual, exploring the nature of live coding or connections of live coding with other practices. Examples are »Code LiveCoding Live«, where I use live coding to sonify the side-effects of live coding, »Etudes pour le Livecoding à une Main«, where I explore live coding with one-handed keyboards based on a script of a live coding performance from the past, and »The Machine is Learning«, where I use an extremely simple gestural live coding language to highlight the labour involved in machine learning.
  
  This is what I love about the live coding community:
  I love the activist style (manifestos!), and the openness and diversity in the community.
  For me the »on-the-fly« project:
  The »on-the-fly« project is an interesting project bringing together the state-of-the-art live coding community and practices across Europe, giving opportunities to emerging live coders!
- Lina Bautista
- I am traveling to ZKM | Karlsruhe from:
  Barcelona
  My signature in live coding is:
  to keep it simple I think. I enjoy to create musical structures and atmospheres through code.
  This is what I love about the live coding community:
  Sharing knowledge, and although we perform separately and using different tools, we grow up and learn from each others.
  For me the »on-the-fly« project:
  is a space for practice, reflection, research and discovery of live coding.
- Alexandra Cárdenas
- I am traveling to ZKM | Karlsruhe from:
  Verona, Italy, but I am based in Berlin.
  My personal style of live coding is:
  Devoted to exploring different emotions, ways of coding, sound worlds – a journey through textures on board a live coded vessel.
  This is what I love about the live coding community:
  It has created a safe space in which I have flourished and continue to thrive. It offers alternative ways to create and brings back the communal purpose of art.
  For me, the »on-the-fly« project:
  It's a beautiful opportunity to connect the live coding community with specific institutions that are open to our alternative way of creation. In this way, both institutions and the live coding community can exchange knowledge and ideas based on inclusion, diversity, and togetherness.
- Olivia Jack
- I am traveling to ZKM | Karlsruhe from:
  Berlin, Germany
  
  My signature in live coding is:
  video feedback, toolmaking
  
  This is what I love about the live coding community:
  Welcoming to beginners
  
  For me the on-the-fly project:
  has been an amazing support to independent artists and researchers working with live coding
- Shelly Knotts
- I am traveling to ZKM | Karlsruhe from:
  Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
  My signature in live coding is:
  noisy synths, wonky beats and disruptive algorithms.
  This is what I love about the live coding community:
  the super inclusive community and the spirit of everyone learning together through and with the code.
  For me the »on-the-fly« project:
  is helping to bring the european live coding community together.
- Iván Paz
- I am traveling to ZKM | Karlsruhe from:
  Barcelona
  My personal style of live coding is:
  I play using the »SuperCollider« programming language, where I develop the functions / algorithms that I use. I enjoy playing from scratch, a.k.a starting from a white screen. I'm currently exploring machine learning possibilities within live coding focusing on the real time human-algorithm feedback.
  This is what I love about the live coding community:
  Live coding could hardly be understood without the community; Sharing, spaces, code and ideas, is at the live coding core definition.
  For me the »on-the-fly« project:
  It is the possibility of exchanging between communities and forming open spaces to explore live coding.
- Antonio Roberts
- I am traveling to ZKM | Karlsruhe from:
  Birmingham, UK
  
  My personal style of live coding is:
  My visuals tend to start very minimal, with only a few visual elements on screen. It then gradually builds up to a chaotic glitchy texture that aims to capture the general feeling of the music rather than react to it.
  
  This is what I love about the live coding community:
  The live coding community has been very welcoming and very inspiring, allowing me to learn at a steady pace and encouraging me to try new
  techniques and software. They're open to new ideas and new ways of working.
  
  For me the »on-the-fly« project:
  A brilliant opportunity to learn and co-create with talent from across the globe.
- Kıvanç Tatar
- I am traveling to ZKM | Karlsruhe from:
  Gothenburg, Sweden
  
  My signature in live coding is:
  Using live coding; 1- as a method to explore latent audio spaces, 2- for procedural audio generation with ML and AI.
  
  This is what I love about the live coding community:
  I love that live coding community encourages open source technology and open-access knowledge.
  
  For me the on-the-fly project:
  Is an opportunity to interact with live coding communities in Europe, and a challenge to integrate my research in raw audio synthesis with Deep Learning to live performances.
- Anna Xambó Sedó
- I am traveling to ZKM | Karlsruhe from:
  Sheffield, UK.
  My personal style of live coding is based on a DIY approach of researching for self-built sketchbooks, mostly in »SuperCollider«, allowing for algorithmic explorations biased towards sound-based music, atonal frequencies, and noise ambiences.
  This is what I love about the live coding community:
  Its cooperative, creative, democratic, inclusive, innovative, passionate, and unique spirit and vision of finding new ways of creative expression and collective organisation.
  For me the »on-the-fly« project is a new platform and opportunity for investigating the practice of live coding focusing on community building, sharing knowledge, and drawing the future of live coding.

The »on-the-fly: Live-Coding Hacklab« is part of the project »on-the-fly« and is co-financed by the program »Creative Europe« of the European Union. It takes place in cooperation with the Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology and with the kind support of the SAM•ComputerStudio of the University of Music Karlsruhe.

Imprint

ZKM | Hertz-Lab
Yannick Hofmann & Cecilia Preiss, Patrick Borgeat (Karlsruhe University of Music) – Program organization
Dominik Kautz – Production organization
Ben Miller & David Luchow – Sound engineers
Hans Gass – Light & event technology
Jakob Schreiber, Manuel Urrutia – Assistance sound engineers & event technology
Mate Bredan – Erasmus student & hand

ZKM | Video Studio
Christina Zartmann – Head of ZKM | Video Studio
Moritz Büchner – Technical director ZKM | Video Studio
Andy Koch – Live editing
Peter Müller - Camera
Audric Dette - Camera

ZKM | Communication & Marketing
Tanja Binder – Head of ZKM | Communcation & Marketing
Adamantia Goulandris, Lara Janke, Samira Kaiser, Ida Kammerer, Lena Schneider – Homepage & Communication
Lisanne Zecha - Marketing

Partners
Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory, Ljubjana (SI)
Creative Coding Utrecht (NL)
Hangar, Barcelona (ES)

Associated Partner
Institut für Musikinformatik und Musikwissenschaft der Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe

Organization / Institution