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Live Coding

by Oscar Ardaiz

Public University of Navarra (Spain)

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Live Coding is Live Art

(as Theater Plays, Music Concerts, ..)

Live Coding Audio Sessions “FromScratch”

https://youtu.be/_mCwSNYp3uY?t=1575 min 26:16-24:50

Live Coding

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Live Coding

Sound

  • Tidal
  • Gibber (Web, paper)

Visuals

  • Hydra

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Live Coding Music: TidalCycles�https://tidalcycles.org/docs/patternlib/tutorials/course1�

https://youtu.be/-QY2x6aZzqc?t=436

Live Coding Demos

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Live Coding Video (Web-based)�https://hydra.ojack.xyz/ �

https://youtu.be/-QY2x6aZzqc?t=259

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Live Coding Demos

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Live Coding Audiovisuals: Gibber �(Web-based, Javascript, paper) https://gibber.cc/playground/index.html �

“Gibber: Abstractions for Creative Multimedia Programming” MM´14

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2647868.2654949

Live Coding Demos

Chrome

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Live Programming

Programming Interfaces

  • Código
  • Nodos:

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Live Coding

Body

Robots

Audience Interaction

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Live Coding Audio and Dance Improvisation: CO/DA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N48xAu81zr0

Live Coding Demos

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3491102.3501916 CHI’22

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Live Coding Visuals and Dancers: p5score

https://www.sicchio.com/p5score

Live Coding Demos

https://dktr0.github.io/LocoMotion/

https://dktr0.github.io/LocoMotion/

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Live Coding Animation: Locomotion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1r62fG6fHM

Live Coding Demos

https://dktr0.github.io/LocoMotion/

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Live Coding Human-Robots Dance Performance

https://iclc.toplap.org/2025/catalogue/paper/on-the-design-and-implementation-of-a-live-human-robot-coding.html

Live Coding Demos

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Live Coding with the Audience: sharing code with QRs

https://iclc.toplap.org/2025/catalogue/paper/scrawlink-live-sharing-of-live-coding-scores-using-qr-codes.html

Live Coding Demos

https://github.com/Scrawlink/scrawlink-extension/