NODE+CODE #23 – AV Live Coding Special
Meetup + Algorave!
New year, new venue, new topic: our community meetup is back for another round, and we’re kicking off the season with a special event at display focused on live coding.

Live coding is a digital art practice that emphasizes experimentation. Here, we still write the code ourselves, which may seem almost old-fashioned to AI enthusiasts and vibe coders. And we embrace glitches, the unexpected, and collective experimentation with algorithms in real time. The live-coding tools Hydra and Strudel are particularly beginner-friendly and can deliver great results and expressive possibilities even without any prior knowledge.
Program
We’ll kick off the day at 2:00 PM with two parallel workshops on live-coding interactive visuals and live-coding sound, which are open to anyone interested (→ see here!).
At 7:00 PM, we’ll open the event for a meetup, and the workshop leaders, Düsseldorf-based digital artist Flor de Fuego and the Frankfurt team of Tobias Hecker, Felix Roos, and Hannes Güdelhöfer, will present their artistic work, their live-coding tools, and their approaches to using these tools.
In addition—despite the innovative content, in keeping with good old tradition—there will be delicious soup for free.
Afterward, the artists, workshop participants, and display invite you to the first display Algorave. Come by, enjoy, and jam along!
Contributors
Flor de Fuego
https://flordefuego.xyz/Flor de Fuego (she/her) is a digital-craft artist who primarily works with programming and live coding to create performative experiences. Her research explores concepts such as the body, space, code, and the chaos-cosmos. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the National University of La Plata, Argentina. Currently she is studying at Klang und Realität master’s program at the Institute of Music and Media, Robert Schumann Hochschule, Düsseldorf, Germany. Flor is actively involved in the live coding community. She is also an active community collaborator for Hydra, a live coding browser-based software developed by Olivia Jack.
Tobias Hecker
https://mastodon.social/@superdirtspatzTobias Hecker (he/him) writes electronic music using different aliases to explore a diversity of emotional and technical areas. His interest in improvisation and jazz keeps pushing his tracks while his love for effects units adds organic layers. Driven by enthusiasm, serenity, audacity and reverie. Sets might include fm synthesis, breaks, beats, samples, interferences, dub treatments, minimal techniques and birdsong.
Felix Roos
https://post.lurk.org/@frooseddyflux writes code live to create wonky beats, hypnotic drones and alternate harmonies. Using his pet project strudel.cc, he tries to find ways to make live coded music more accessible for both performers and audiences.
Hannes Güdelhöfer
https://guedelhoefer.dev/A wizard of visuals, Hannes Güdelhöfer explores what is possible with browser based graphic programming. Cells, shapes and recursions are some of his building blocks. His love for live coding music and visuals only gets beaten by his drive to push development of live coding tools.
And what else will happen?
A new NODE+CODE meetup season has begun. We will continue to exchange knowledge, keep close with the community – and, of course, we will again serve drinks and a yummy soup for free!
Just come by or RSVP (for better planning) here!

What is NODE+CODE?
Since 2014, the meetup invites creatives, designers, artists, coders and anyone else interested to a series of events with changing locations and thematic focuses – all related to working with code in design and the arts. We want to build a community of people interested in the creative and critical application of technology in Frankfurt and Rhein-Main.
Open Call
We want you to be part of NODE+CODE and share your projects, challenges and questions with the community in one of our next meetups:
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Funding
The project is funded in the program “Promotion of Cultural and Creative Industries Institutions” by the Hessian Ministry of Economy, Energy, Transport, Housing and Rural Affairs.

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