Coding livecoding

Ben Swift; Andrew Sorensen; Michael Martin; Henry Gardner

doi:10.1145/2556288.2557049

Coding livecoding

Ben Swift, Andrew Sorensen, Michael Martin, Henry Gardner

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Abstract

Livecoding is an artistic programming practice in which an artist's low-level interaction can be observed with sufficiently high fidelity to allow for transcription and analysis. This paper presents the first reported "coding" of livecoding videos. From an identified corpus of videos available on the web, we coded performances of two different livecoding artists, recording both the (textual) programming edit events and the musical effect of these edits. Our analysis includes a novel, transition-matrix visualisation of the textual and musical dimensions of this data to create a "performer fingerprint". We show how detailed transcriptions of livecoding videos can be made which, we hope, will provide a foundation for further research into describing and understanding livecoding.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2014
Subtitle of host publication	One of a CHInd - Conference Proceedings, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1021-1024
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781450324731
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557049
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014 - Toronto, ON, Canada Duration: 26 Apr 2014 → 1 May 2014

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto, ON
Period	26/04/14 → 1/05/14

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Swift, B, Sorensen, A, Martin, M & Gardner, H 2014, Coding livecoding. in CHI 2014: One of a CHInd - Conference Proceedings, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1021-1024, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014, Toronto, ON, Canada, 26/04/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557049

Coding livecoding. / Swift, Ben; Sorensen, Andrew; Martin, Michael et al.
CHI 2014: One of a CHInd - Conference Proceedings, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014. p. 1021-1024 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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