Presentation about TOPLAP live algorithmic music at 7.30 pm followed by two live performances by Alex McLean and Nick Collins at the Sussex Arts Club, Brighton.

"Somehow the music got messed up with the code. The music described the shape of the code, the code described the shape of the music... Until the code and the music became one thing. What I thought and what I heard was the same. I typed what I heard, and heard what I typed."
A TOPLAP performer, after writing his first TOPLAP computer program.

Nick Collins and Alex McLean are two of the founder members of a new movement called TOPLAP which explores the authorship of code during live performance. You can read their manifesto here. The audience sees and hears what the TOPLAP programmer types, the same way you would see and hear what a guitarist plays. The process is brought to the fore and laid bare. They discussed the creative use of programming as an interface for music making and demonstrated their personal approaches to live coding. During the performances Alex used Perl scripts (see image to the left for an example) and Nick Supercollider.