NODE+CODE Workshop Special – Live Coding Sound + Visuals
Join us for two workshops + algorave!
Live coding is the art of experimenting with code to create music and visuals. Following the successful workshops in April, there will be a second round for beginners who have no prior experience but are curious about Strudel and Hydra because they want to live by the motto “make your own kind of music” and visuals!
This time, it’s also possible to attend both (or just one) workshop and then try out your newly acquired coding skills to collectively transform the display into an algorave floor (→see Algorave!).
2:00–4:00 PM: Workshop #1 Live-Coding Sound with Strudel
4:00–5:00 PM: BREAK and PLAY
5:00–7:00 PM: Workshop #2 Interaktive Visuals with Hydra
7:00–8:30 PM: REST and SOUP
8:30–∞: Live-Coding – Algorave
WORKSHOP #1 – Live Coding Sound with Strudel
In this workshop, Frankfurt-based creative coders Tobias Hecker and Felix Roos will introduce the live-coding tool Strudel for music composition. With Strudel, you can write dynamic pieces of music right in your browser. When coding sound, you not only have a clear view of what’s happening at any given moment, but you can also modify sound tracks live and update them in real time. This creates unparalleled spontaneity: Your laptop can become just as expressive an instrument as a guitar, a synthesizer, a sampler, or a drum set.
At the end of the workshop, you’ll be able to compose and jam live online with others, incorporating other tools as well.
WORKSHOP #2 – Interactive Visuals for Live Performances with Hydra
In this workshop, creative coders Hannes Güdelhöfer and Tobias Hecker will provide an introduction to creating interactive visuals for live performances using Hydra. Hydra is a free, browser- and JavaScript-based live-coding software developed by Olivia Jack. It’s ideal for beginners and allows you to develop interactive visuals even with little or no programming experience.
During the workshop, we’ll dive into Hydra and experiment with developing various programmed functions, distorting camera images, audio inputs, and other inputs to generate our own interactive visuals. By the end of the workshop, participants will have learned how to use Hydra and will be able to bring their own artistic ideas to life.
Who are these workshops for?
Anyone interested, artists, designers, curious minds, students from a wide range of fields,
What do you need to bring?
You’ll need your own laptop. No installation is required, but it should have Wi-Fi. Bringing your own headphones would also be great.
How much does it cost to participate?
It’s up to you! If you’re able to, you can pay a participation fee. But you’re also very welcome to participate for free with a subsidized ticket.
Contributors
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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