NLCL Concerts & Events

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Hey all, I put in a workshop description to iii as a kind of placeholder for now. Assuming that it would be somehow related to the Algorave concert we will do at iii. Hereā€™s the description I made (note that we can continue to discuss this and change details/teachers/theme if it makes sense - I just needed to give iii something now!):

hands-on introduction to music and visual live coding

This workshop is an introduction to music and visual live coding for absolute beginners. A special focus of this workshop is to provide an accessible entry point for participants to learn some basic tools for livecoding; we wish to grow the Dutch livecoding community and also encourage gender equality and diversity within this community. The workshop will be designed and taught by members of the NL_CL community and will be scheduled on the same day as our Algorave concert. Participants in the workshop will have the opportunity to take part in the evening concert as performers.

Live coding began in the early 2000ā€™s as a new direction in electronic music and video performance. Enabled by the increasing availability of inexpensive laptops capable of generating sound and visuals in real-time, and domain-specific programming languages to take advantage of these capabilities, livecoders expose and rewire the innards of software while it is written on-the-fly. Furthermore, live coding in music proposes certain ethical principles:

  1. Transparency (sharing of code & methodology in and out of performance)

  2. No borders (online-streamed presentations, global community)

  3. Interaction and democratic ways of working with/within the audience

  4. Striving for an open and inclusive community (gender balanced line-ups, and extra attention for underrepresented minorities)

target audience

Beginners, those with no coding experience, anyone interested in computer languages as expressive tools for live music and visual art.

max number of participants

20

duration (how many hours over how many days)

one full day (10-18h with a 30min lunch break), day ends with a concert/Algorave

bios of everyone involved

The exact teachers could change, it will be two people from the NL_CL community, for now we have confirmed:

Timo Hoogland is a livecoder, creative coder, music technologist and educator from The Netherlands. He livecodes experimental electronic dance music. All music and visuals are generated in real time with a custom designed programming environment and language called Mercury. He graduated from the Masters of Music Design at the HKU University of Arts Utrecht in 2019, where he developed Mercury and used it to research and develop algorithmic composition techniques in livecoded music. A paper about the environment was published at the International Conference on Live Coding in Madrid. He has an active role in organizing livecoding jamsessions and Algoraves together with Creative Coding Utrecht/Amsterdam, is part of the Netherlands Coding Live community and has performed at various festivals like Overkill Enschede, Tec-Art Rotterdam, Droidcon Turin and React
Amsterdam. He educates creative coding practices at the HKU Bachelor of Music Technology.

Sebastian Pappalardo is a Sound Design and computer musician who works with a variety of livecoding languages/environments, but primarily SuperCollider, Tidal-cycles and Hydra. He performs under the moniker eerieear

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Hereā€™s an update on the concerts for 2020 in The Hague :slight_smile:

iii has proposed we do our first concert on March 28th, 2020 and the second on May 23, 2020

I guess the first question is -> who wants to curate?
And will these dates work?
Also, who can run the sound and who can volunteer at the bar?

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Bravo everyone!!! :fire::clap::clap: and bravo @j.reus for moving this forward!

I can volunteer for any one of the three slots:

  • curate

  • bar

  • sound

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Nice @j.reus, great progress! The 28th of March seems to work, the 23th of May clashes with the Intergalactic FM Festival in The Hague that weekend and Soenda Festival in Utrecht (this one will probably not have the same target-audience).

I am of course also available as curator, sound-engineer or bartender. I think it would be nice to have a few people volunteer in shifts so everyone can enjoy the night and also help out a little for example.

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Hi,
for me: on March 28th it is quite likely that Iā€™ll be in Norway, so I wonā€™t be able to attend.
May 23rd, Iā€™ll be in the Netherlands, but it is unlikely I can contribute or even come to the event, as Iā€™ll just have come back from an intensive week, so I have that day marked to just rest and do nothing else.

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Just made a separate topic for October 12th: Live Coding Event October 12th 2019 @zaal100, Amsterdam

:robot:

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Hey all, would May 16th be a better date for the second iii concert?

Also: we need a curator for each concert > so please volunteer. @narcode maybe youā€™d like to be in charge of the March 28th concert curation? And @Timo, correct me if Iā€™m wrong, you wanted to be the curator for the Algorave in the fall?

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Hi @j.reusā€¦ Iā€™ll confirm about March 28th this week ok?

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Hey guys!

Nice! Iā€™m happy to hear about those dates! Iā€™m up to perform on March 28th and help on May 23,2020 on the organization or as a staff.

Perhaps may I make an excel with the name and function of the people that already give their names?

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@j.reus Thank you so much for this , I am sorry I was so absent from this forum for the last few days.
It has been a pretty busy and chaotic moment. I am so glad to see this is taking shape, Super grateful for all the effort you have put into it to make it happen !

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EDIT: Moved this reply to the other thread

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Hi everyone, I am always a bit lost in the different threads but I think this message fits in here. Worm is hosting one last ā€˜Algo~Rhythmsā€™ for this year (https://worm.org/production/algo-rhythms-05/). So far in the line up: Mirikat coming from the UK; Giovanni (Kesson) and Jo Kroese and then we will have the jam session as usual. In the budget there is a symbolic amount (about the same as to covering travel costs from the train trip) for one or two people for opening up the jam session (ideally playing audio). It would be something short, as I think more people will want to join the jam session spontaneously, so we need to make room for that ā€” drop me an email (web@joanachicau.com) if this is of interest to anyone!

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Hey allā€¦ Iā€™m also getting a bit lost in all the threadsā€¦ I hope Iā€™m posting this in the right place.

TRANS/\CODE : Dec 11, 2019 @ iii

Marije and I are organizing a short, livecoding research residency where we will be collaborating with two virtuosic performers (Maya Fridman - cello/voice and Miri Lee - dance/choreography) to prototype new live coding systems.

The residencies will culminate in a performance on December 11th at iii.
Hereā€™s the link

Please share within your networks if you donā€™t mind! Maybe this should also go on the NL_CL pr outlets?

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Cool, sounds awesome. I can take care of posting this in the NLCL twitterā€¦

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I will do the Insta Post

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And this is the correct thread btw. Or is the forum way to do it to start a new thread for each event? :flushed:

Good night all,

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I think it is a lot more clear if there is a new thread for each event. The threads of old events will then just disappear into history.

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Is there any sort of
ā€œpinned threadā€ kind of functionality on the forum?

    That way we can pin the

general announcement threads (e.g. Open Calls, Event
Announcements) and let everything else thatā€™s more specific fall
away as itā€™s no longer active.

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Yeah this is the right place i guess! You started it yourself :slight_smile: :

I think that is fine as well, but a problem can be that some people are maybe watching specific threads, and therefore wonā€™t get the e-mail notification if a new thread is started. But not sure for how many that is te case, and we could also say it is up to them to change the settings if they want to stay up-to-date for all new threads as well.

Not sure, there is a bookmark icon for a post, but not sure if that helps.

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a reminder of tomorrowā€™s live coding evening of performances at Worm Rotterdam, and an invitation for joining the jam session - - - > https://worm.org/production/algo-rhythms-05/ - - < looking forward to seeing you! Hugs *

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