The International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC) is dedicated to practices and research focused on technologies and philosophies that interpret the use of computer code as gesture within the context of live performances. In its previous editions the community has offered important insights on this practice from many diverse perspectives – technical, philosophical, educational, political and more.

ICLC 2023 takes place in Utrecht, The Netherlands from April 19 to April 23 2023, and we wish to challenge our community to bridge even further to its multidisciplinary strengths. We are pleased to invite submissions of proposed contributions in the form of theoretical works, live and live-recorded audio/visual performances, videos, workshops and satellite events. This call is open to everyone. We encourage submissions that cover any topic related to live coding, but in particular we invite the exploration of the following overarching main theme:

Displacement

Find more info at ICLC 2023

For us this wiki is just the beginning, it is open for contributions, you can sign up and contribute with the history of the project!

https://wiki.onthefly.space/

On-the-Fly is a project dedicated to the live coding practice, which revolves around humans interacting with algorithms in real-time with an artistic intention, embracing community aspects as well as glitches, errors and open-source ideas.

On-the-fly is coordinated by Hangar in partnership with Ljudmila, Creative Coding Utrecht and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.

on-the-fly.collect(_) will include a series of activities related to the live coding practice: a workshop, from scratch session, a premiere of the documentary about live coding, final reflections (the last cantina), concerts and an Algorave.

Program:

Thursday the 7th of July, Hangar

19h00-21h00 From scratch session

These experimental sessions are held once a month within the Toplap Barcelona community, this time, special guests are also going to join to the challenge: 
Each performer starts from a white screen and has 9 minutes to build a visual or/and sonic output.
The audience also has a special task: At the end of the nine minutes everyone has to clap, no matter the result. This is just for fun!

Friday the 8th of July, Hangar

10h30- 17h00 Algorithmic pattern workshop hosted by Alex Mc Lean + Lizzie Wilson + Iván Paz 

How does live coded algorithmic music relate to ancient heritage algorithms? A workshop dedicated to patterns applied for live coding music or visual that will invite participants to explore both the historical and contemporary use of algorithmic practices in pattern making. In a hands-on session, participants will be learning the practice of tablet weaving, where cards are twisted and flipped to make complex, three dimensional braiding patterns.

Sign up here

19h-21h {on-the-fly} Documentary Premiere

The documentary will be presented for first time with an introduction from Olga Sismanidi, Creative Europe- Culture and the European Education and Culture Executive Agengy (EACEA) / the European Commission.  Through a series of interviews and performances, the documentary offers a glimpse into the practice of live coding and its community, a look at algorithmic performances where, with a single typo, everything can just go wrong! Then, it is not about the error, it is about what you can create out of it!

Saturday the 9th of July, Hangar

16h00 – 17h00 The last cantina

The cantinas are gatherings created during on-the-fly to discuss specific subjects, concerns, perspectives and questions between peers. A series of cantinas have set the pace of the research line of the project. During this cantina, live coders will talk about new perspectives, and conclusions of the project. It doesn't have to be the last, but it will certainly close a season.

17h00-19h00 Live Coding Concert

Live coding is a particular way to experiment with technology. It explores the artistic possibilities derived from algorithmic processes written in real-time interaction with humans. This applied to the different levels of visuals and music such as sound synthesis, pattern generation as well as the structure of the piece. A live coding concert explores the limits and tensions of such possibilities from different angles, time conceptions and hierarchy levels.

Line up: 

17h00 Luka Frelih 

17h30 Patrick Borgeat 

18h00 Turbulente and Roger Pibernat 

18h30 Iván Paz 

Saturday the 9th of July, Sala Vol

21h30 - 03h30 Algorave

An Algorave is a festive event where people dance to music generated by algorithms. The sonic output can be depicted or inspired/conducted by visual patterns, also generated in real-time by algorithmic processes.

Line up: 

21h00 doors opening 

21h10 QBRNTHSS and Sabrina Verbage 

21h30 Flor de Fuego 

22h50 narcode and Sabrina Verbage 

23h30 digital selves and Joana Chicau 

00h10 Eloi el bon noi and Flor de Fuego 

00h50 Alicia Champlin and Joana Chicau 

1h30 Timo Hoogland: ./drum.code

2h10 Niklas and Turbulente 

2h40 La Picante AKA Jenifer 4ninston and Turbulente 

Buy your tickets here 

Since the 1st of October, 2020, the project On-the-Fly has been promoting the development of the European practice of live coding, a technique of sound and visual creation that generates a technological appropriation through the use and development of free and open programming.

The project, at the intersection between the arts, computing and technology, aims to promote new creative directions for the understanding and use of technology and artistic practices.

Practical information
Date: Tuesday june 7, 2022
Time: 3:15 p.m.
Place: Hall, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)

Joining forces, Rarefacció and On-the-Fly propose a synergetic encounter between artists from different practices and musical backgrounds to offer a thrilling experimental experience.

On the 22nd of April, R3^^IX will perform alonside PLOM🧨

Rashad Becker and Kentaro Terajima will performan together on the 29th of April💥

And on the 13th of May Olivia Jack will present her work in musical code programming with the experimental musican George Adje. The same session will also host Daniel Moreno Roldán and Helicotrema.💣

Save the dates!!

The event is co-organized by Hangar and co-funded by the @creative.eu program.

Live coding describes an artistic practice and creative technique in which computer programs are written in real time and on stage. The audience will be able to look over the performers' shoulders as they spontaneously produce sound and images while experiencing an audiovisual concert program. Closely related to mathematics and computer science, live coding is a powerful tool for promoting artistic research, digital creation, and technological literacy.

With performances by Elina Lukijanova, Michele Samarotto, Daniel Kurosch Höpfner, Alex McLean and Lizzy Wilson.

»Coding Culture« is part of the »on-the-fly« project and is co-funded by the European Union's Creative Europe program. It takes place in cooperation with the Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology at the Karlsruhe University of Music.

Programme: 

Thursday, 5 May:

• Live coded visuals workshop with Olivia Jack
• Exhibition opening Anna Carreras: Live TOPS M-1 coding
• Demo performance of Wavey wind gesture tracking tools developed at the OTF Hackaton

Friday, 6 May:

• Live Coding 101 (music workshop with Timo Hoogland)
• ALGORAVE - 10th anniversary of algorave movement with an international lineup: Patrick Borgeat, Chigüire, Saskia Freeke, Timo Hoogland, Olivia Jack, LinaLab, Ivan Paz, Blaž Pavlica, Roger Pibernat, Luka Prinčič, Turbulente and more.

More info soon!

The event is part of the European On-the-fly project and is supported by the Creative Europe program.

She is currenetly Ljudmila's On-the-Fly artist-in-residency. 
The project she is developing as part of the residency deals with complex systems that lie on a continuum between regularity and chaos, between order and disorder. Her visual and sonic exploration of balance and homeostasis is inspired by early ideas of cybernetics. 
The proyect aims at creating a live coded performance and installation based on visual and physical interfaces. Her installation will allow visitors to participate in live coding through an interface, a hacked typewriter, and to generate rhythm, sounds and visuals with the machine. The project explores, on the one hand, how visual elements and algorithms generate machine language, and, on the other hand, how machine sounds can be visually represented.

As part of her residency she organized the workshop 'Collaging with Code', which took place on the 29th of March in osmo/za (Ljubljana). During the workshop she provided participants with the basics of coding in Processing. She then introduced her audience to collage techniques in combination with code, to create unique dynamic graphics and an unlimited number of variations

Anna will share the results of her research in the form of open-source software libraries and documentation on GitHub for other artists or creators to use, build on and explore further.

The event was co-organized by @ljudmilalab and co-funded by the @creative.eu program.

Roger is currently part of Ljudmila's research residency and he is developing a series of tools that will help speed up coding in SuperCollider and make it easier for beginners. During his residency, Roger is developing techniques for code input, editing, organization, setup, and navigation workflows in live coding perfomances with SuperCollider. His idea is to create a technical guide for playing the instrument - the code in SuperCollider - just like a documentation on playing techniques for analog instruments is made. Roger's goal for the proposed SuperCollider code is to conform as much as possible to the live coding manifesto, especially in points regarding the insight into algorithms and performer's mindset, and the ability to produce expressive music.

As part  of his residency Roger organized the 'Keyboard Acrobatics' Workshop: in the first part of his workshop, that took place on the 23rd of March, he introduced the participants to the live coding tools he has been developing during his residency at osmo/za. 
For the second part of the workshop he organized a 'From Scratch: live coding session', where the participants experimented with the tools and knowledge provided and performed through the From Scratch format.



The event was co-organized by @ljudmilalab and co-funded by the @creative.eu program.

Watch the full performance here

The event is part of the European On-the-fly project and is supported by the Creative Europe program.

During the four days of the festival there will be workshops, knowledge sharing, presentations of projects developed by members of the Toplap Barcelona community, performances and a closing Algorave.

Program

Thursday 24/3

Workshop by Jack Armitage : 16h

Jack Armitage is a musician, designer, technologist and researcher based in the UK. He is currently researching the design of digital musical instruments and is an artist-in-residence in Hangar during the month of March, as part of the on-the-fly project. During his residency he seeks to create a pedagogical and creative language for musical creation. This workshop will be both the result and the implementation of his research.

From scratch session : 20h

The technique “from Scratch” consists in playing live for 9 minutes, starting with an empty screen, making transparent the tools (classes, functions, data structures, etc.) that allow the livecoder to perform different musical, sound and/or visual tasks within the performance. The audience has to applaud at the end of the 9 minutes, whatever happens!

Friday 25/3

Workshop by CSOUND : synthesis and extensions of language by Leonardo Foletto : 16h

Csound has established itself over the years as an extremely powerful and reliable sound and music computer system. This workshop will explore some of the modern methodologies in which Csound is used for sound synthesis and its available approaches to extend the language. You will learn how to develop Csound instruments within the context of live coding, create new Csound “opcodes” from within the language itself and develop custom “opcodes” using C++, all while exploring different synthesis techniques.
The workshop is developed in collaboration with On-the-Fly associate partner Umanesimo Artificiale.

Something Experimental : 20h

This event brings together live coders who will explore different aspects of a more experimental nature in their performances, such as music created from light and colors, generative algorithms with custom instruments, immersive sound with an 8-speaker system, exploring feedback with the use of binaural microphones, and even a trombone. All this using code in different programming languages oriented to create sound and visuals.

Line up

20:00h Maia Francisco

20:30h Yanú Phlux

21:00h Niklas Reppel

21:30h Gabriel Millán

22:00h Alicia Champlin

22:30h !ME

23:00h dAAX

Saturday 26/3

Demos : 11h

DEMOS is a space where the livecoder community presents tools developed for a specific purpose. For example, a pattern library, a syntax to write from-scratch code, an algorithm to create automatic variations of a preset or a new live coding language.

Within this space are also presented projects that explore live coding from a specific point of view, rather than more or through specific tools. For example, live coding with sensors or live coding without computers:

Presentations by: Alicia Champlin, Niklas Reppel, Roger Pibernat, Iván Paz, Xavi Daax.

Round table and debate on crypto art: 16h

NFT and live coding

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) technology has been incorporated into the digital arts conversation, under the idea that it can be used to certify, through distributed block chain technology, the uniqueness of a digital piece. The scarcity of copies of the piece (or the impossibility of the exact copy in this case) remains the basic principle on which the remuneration of the artist’s work depends, and that is why NFTs are generally seen as an opportunity for this systematically precarious professional.

Live coding is undoubtedly a digital art. Moreover, a digital art radically committed to an ethic and an economy of shared knowledge, open source and the copy and derivative piece allowed “by default”. From this perspective, what can NFTs bring to live coding? And, reciprocally, what does live coding tell us about NFTs?

ALGORAVE :  19:30 h

An Algorave is an event where algorithmically generated music is danced to, including the practice of live coding, as well as other ways of controlling and performing generative music.

Line up:

19:30h – Dinou + Glen Fraser

20:00h – Jenifer 4ninston + Julia Múgica

20:30h – Agony Aunts

21:00h – Leo Foletto + Turbulente

21:30h – Taronja i Bikini

22:00h – Aurora Steve + Glen Fraser

22:30h – Lil Data

23:00h – r.phlux.d

Sunday 27/3

Hack-Lab-demo (LINK*) : 12h

Open demo resulting from the research carried out during the On-the-Fly Hacklab, part of the project On-the-fly: Fostering Live Coding Practices across Europe.

The activities have a limited capacity.
Attendance is free but registration is required.

Register HERE

The event will be held following all security measures.

The event is part of the European On-the-fly project and is supported by the Creative Europe program.

In dialogue with the city of San Francisco, the AAA will kick off at 8:30 pm with a streaming session in which AAA artists from San Francisco, such as William Fields and Phil Burk, will deliver a talk while artists Mark Fell & Rian Treanor will present a new interactive work specially produced for the AAA.

Starting at 10:10pm in Hangar’s Ricson Room, PC Music’s Lil Data will perform alongside local artists such as Eloi el bon noi, Alicia Champlin and QBRNTHSS, all streaming for AAA San Francisco.

This event is part of Lil Data‘s (Jack Armitage) residency, which will culminate with workshops, hackathons and an algorave at /*VIU*/ Festival 2022.

Program

Streaming from San Francisco

20:30 h – William Fields’ talk

21:15 h  – Phil Burk – HMSL

Hangar – Sala Ricson

22:10 h – Intro (Jack Armitage)

22:15 h  – Lil Data

22:35 h  – Eloi el bon noi

22:55 h – Alicia Champlin

23:15    QBRNTHSS

Practical information

Date: March 12th
Time: 22:10 h to 24 h
Venue: Hangar, Sala Ricson
Price: 5 € (+ booking fee)
Tickets: HERE

In his workshop, he will show you how he controls analogue gear in his work, using microcontrollers and software (Pure Data). You will learn about how to make mechanical adjustments to analogue devices, what type of input and sensors to choose for which purposes. Within the workshop, you will be creating an installation, constantly guarding bare-minimum workarounds to keep your workflow going.

Practical information:
Location: TBC
Date: 1 March
Time: 19.00 - 22:00
Price: €30,- / €15.- 
Ticketshop:  https://ccu.stager.nl/web/tickets/111154065

Digital requirements: Stable internet connection, video conferencing capability (camera and microphone). Headphones are recommended. Please install "Sonic Pi" (runs on all common operating systems) https://sonic-pi.net/.

The workshop will take place online via Zoom on the 13th of February at 10:30 Uhr CET.
The Zoom link will be sent out shortly before the workshop starts.

This workshop takes place within the framework of the project "on-the-fly", which is co-financed by the European Union's "Creative Europe" funding programme.

‘Mefite Goddess of the Volcano’ is an original, new site based theatre piece on the theme of volcanology and volcano lore by The Twin Stranger, Jude Cowan Montague and Riitta Hakkarainen. The piece incorporates multiple live coders working with various data streams, such as seismic data, ground deformation, earthquakes and volcanic emissions.

The Twin Stranger Residency is a collaboration between iii and CCU.

Practical information:
Location: iii workspace, Willem Dreespark 312, The Hague
Date: 20 February 2022
Time: 19:00 - 22:00
Tickets: https://instrumentinventors.org/product/encoding-the-apocalypse/
More info: https://instrumentinventors.org/agenda/encoding-the-apocalypse
About the works: https://instrumentinventors.org/agenda/encoding-the-apocalypse

With a simple practical example of making a compressed air drum machine we will go through the basics of pneumatic systems, flow control with electromagnetic pneumatic valves, percussion with pneumatic cylinders, force transmission, air pressure, compressors, Helmholtz resonators and principle of air resonance in cavities.

NO CODING OR SOLDERING SKILL REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE!!!

Bringing your laptop/computer for active participation is desirable but not mandatory. 

Materials from the workshop will be published on GitHub.

Practical information:
Location: Het Hof van Cartesius, Utrecht
Date: 18 February 2022
Time: 19:00 - 22:00
Price: €30,- / €15.-
Tickets: https://ccu.stager.nl/web/tickets/111154058

As an artist, Branimir works with pneumatic systems, microcontrollers, breath sensors, live coding environment, and music creation software. Jude Cowan Montague and Riitta Hakkarainen, together as The Twin Stranger, will develop ‘Mefite Goddess of the Volcano’: a new site based theatre piece on the theme of volcanology and volcano lore, this project incorporates multiple live coders working with various data streams

The event welcomes coders, creatives, musicians, artists, visualists and anyone else who is interested or curious to know more about Live Coding.

Practical information:
Date: 17th February 2022
Time: 20h CET
Location: De Havenloods, Utrecht
Price: €5,- regular / €3,50 student
Tickets: https://ccu.stager.nl/web/tickets/111154008

Through three different performances, we will explore how digital artists enrich the organ. From applying artificial intelligence to create new compositions to using the body as an instrument through sensors, the power of improvisation will be central to the course of the evening. Visit the concert on the 12^th of February and experience the masterful balance between the elements of surprise and recognition.

Artists: EerieEar (NL), Branimir Štivić (HR) Rachel Devorah Roma (US)

Partners: On-The-Fly [Creative Coding Utrecht, Zentrum Fúr Kunst and Medien Karlsruhe, Hangar Barcelona, Ljudmila Lublijana], Orgelpark

The event is made possible by Creative Europe & Fonds Podiumkunsten Stimulerignsfonds Creatieve Industrie.

Practical intformation:
Location: Orgelpark
Date: 12 February 2022
Time: 20h CET
Tickets: € 17,50/10,00
Link: https://secure.ticketunie.com/widgets/408/87/OrderActvity/100154

As part of the "on-the-fly: Live-Coding Hacklab" the workshop, hosted by ZKM | Centre for Art and Media on the 30th of January (14:00 Uhr CET), invites young people and adults to learn the basics of coding. During the workshop the participants will code together their own design, which they will then be able to print onto their favourite items in the spirit of upcycling.Whether bags, T-shirts or trousers: haute code-ture in hacker style.

The participants will need:
Light-coloured textiles that you can print on with iron-on foil. 

This workshop is part of the project "on-the-fly", which is co-financed by the European Union's Creative Europe programme. 

As part of the "on-the-fly: Live-Coding Hacklab", ZKM holds a workshop where you can experiment with Lego_EV3 generation robots. Your creativity, coding and tinkering are the focus here. The workshop is aimed at children with no previous knowledge of programming.

This workshop takes place within the framework of the project "on-the-fly", which is co-financed by the European Union's "Creative Europe" funding programme. 

Link

This family workshop aimed at creating incredibly cool projects with the child-friendly programmable microcontroller "Calliope Mini". They created fun animations with LEDs and control little painting robots, and composed some music and even build their own instrument for it. 

This workshop took place within the framework of the project "on-the-fly", which is co-financed by the European Union's "Creative Europe" funding programme.

Each performance included two live coders, one in charge of generating the audio, and one focused on the visual part. In the first show, Iris Saladino and Roger Pibernat integrated programming languages such as Hydra, Tidal and SuperCollider to produce sound and visual narratives.

Iris Saladino is a sound-oriented creative coder based in Buenos Aires. She works live coding music (mainly, but not only) with TidalCycles and visuals with Hydra, and is also member of CLiC (Live Coders Collective).

Roger Pibernat is an illustrator and musician that works with SuperCollider. Co-founder of the Wú Collective, he has been part of the Barcelona Laptop Orchestra, and is currently an active member of the Barcelona live coding community.

In the second show, Shelly Knotts and Glen Fraser combined broken SuperCollider synths and automatic drum machines with particle and shader effects to create fluid, responsive spaces.

Shelly Knotts was one of the artists awarded a grant from the On-the-Fly open call. Her interest in code, data and networks has led her down strange and diverse musical paths, from electroacoustic composition, to jazz and noise music, to Algorave. She experiments with generative and AI techniques and algorithms to make music.

Glen Fraser is a Canadian software developer who has worked in graphics, sound, interactive and immersive technology for over a quarter of a century. Inspired by the TidalCycles pattern language, he develops and uses “Bacalao”, his personal collection of live-coder tools for SuperCollider.

Finally, in the third show, Ivan Paz and Julia Mújica’s performance integrated symbolic machine learning for sound synthesis and systems with collective behavior for the visuals.

Iván Paz's work is framed in critical approaches to technology focused on from-scratch construction as a technique of exploration. He is currently working with machine learning techniques while maintaining the real-time feedback characteristic of live coding.

Julia Múgica has a interdisciplinary background spanning biology and computational physics. Her work includes animated particle design in processing language, noise design from random walk algorithms for modular synthesizers, rhythm and collective patterns with interactive robots.

The event was part of the European project On-the-fly and is supported by the Creative Europe program. Coorganized by: MUTEK ES, Hangar.org and Toplap Barcelona.

On-The-Fly project is made possible thanks to the support of Creative Europe, the Dutch Performing Arts Fund and the Creative Industries Fund NL

Video by Grycko

More info

Are you interested in visual communication and new ways of expression? Perhaps by drawing with programming code? How about giving live-coding a try?

Join us for a two-day workshop with mentor Blaž Pavlica. Blaž is a programmer, audio-visual artist, sound engineer and DJ, who lives and works in Utrecht (NL).

During the workshop, through the creation of diverse visual sketches or animations, we’ll learn computer graphics and become familiar with the basic concepts of programming and programming languages. We’ll learn about variables, conditional statements, strings and functions as well as how to use them for drawing, designing, animating and colouring forms on the screen.

Among others, the goal of the workshop is to show that every person can start learning to program. Thus, the workshop is also suitable for participants without any programming experience.

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PRACTICAL INFORMATION

DATE: Saturday and Sunday, 9.-10. October 2021 | 11.00 - 14.00, 17:00 - 20:00
LOCATION: osmo/za (8th floor), Slovenska 54, Ljubljana
TO REGISTER: delavnica@ljudmila.org

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The workshop is part of the project On-the-fly, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. The workshop is supported by the Ministry of Public Administration and the Municipality of Ljubljana – Department for Culture.

Furthermore, when we think of live coding without a computer, we need to consider alternative interfaces for the code input and/or output. These interfaces may allow for greater embodiment or hybrid approaches to live coding. From theater, to wearables, to audience interpreters and reappropriation of other interfaces or instruments, this session invites you to share your ideas and hear about computerless coding in all its forms.

- Olivia Jack (Hangar)

- Roger Pibernat (Ljudmila)

- Kıvanç Tatar (ZKM)

We sincerely thank all participants and wish all the best to the awarded artists!

With the support of:

On the occasion of the Partner-meeting of On-The-Fly, held from the 27th till the 29th of September at Utrecht, the On-The-Fly team will participate at the meet-up with CCU and NL_CL.

During the day are welcomed all coders, creatives, musicians, artists and anyone else who is interested or curious in the field of Live Coding to join us. 

We will talk about coding, show work-in-progress and explore the live coding practice. The day will end with an open code jam and drinks.

If you want to join the jam session, remember to bring your laptop, no matter your expertise we’d love to see you perform.
Jamming is open for anyone, but if you already know you’d like to join you can email: info@creativecodingutrecht.nl.

This meetup is in collaboration with On-The-Fly, ZKM Karlsruhe, Hangar.org, Ljudmila Lab and NL_CL, and sponsored by Creative Europe Programme, Gemeente Utrecht, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Pictoright Fund & Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie.

PRACTICAL INFOMATIONS

Date: 28 Sept

Location: De Havenloods, Nijverheidsweg 6, Utrecht

Time: 20:00 - 22:30

Ticketlink: https://ccu.stager.nl/web/tickets/111111641

During the event, several coders from Europe will join and perform during the day.

For now, we see the participation of Iván Paz, the artist in residence of On the fly and the live coder Blaž Pavlica.

GOGBOT is an annual festival in Enschede organized by Planetart, a local group of artists. The festival deals with subjects in the area of multimedia, art, music and technology.

This year GOGBOT 2021 dives into the transformation of our information ecosystem in times of synthetic media, #deepfakes, conspiracy theories, and more.

How do we stay together as a society in times when nothing is as it seems? It’s time to recalibrate reality!

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For more information’s visit: https://2021.gogbot.nl/

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Title: Gogbot Algorave 2021
Location: The Sickhouse, Enschede
Date & Time: 9^th of September, starting from 22:00

ALG0MA5, presented by Gaudeamus, Creative Coding Utrecht and NL_CL, is a concert in which you see digital creativity enriching the practice of composers, instrument builders and musicians.

The event is framed by three performances by live coders from Barcelona, ​​Karlsruhe and Ljublijana who belong to the European collaborative project On-The-Fly.

Event description:
The Brazilian composer and hardware hacker Rafaele Andrade shows the versatility of her hybrid instrument KNURL.  KNURL is a hybrid cello with 16 strings made of durable material and built-in electronic components.  Moreover, the musicians and artists Jonathan Reus, Sabrina Verhage and Anne Veinberg & Felipe Ignacio Noriega will demonstrate that thanks to the electronics, the audience can influence the sounds of the instrument to live during the concert.

The entrance is free!

For more information’s visit: https://gaudeamus.nl/en/events/electronica-for-lovers-day-2/alg0ma5/

On-The-Fly is made possible in part by the support of Creative Europe, the Dutch Performing Arts Fund and the Creative Industries Fund NL.

PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS
Title: ALG0MA5 a showcase of hybrid live coding practices
Location: De Nijverheid, Utrecht
Date & Time: September 12th 12:00 - 15:00

During the event, Gaia Leandra, an Italian artist and scientist, presents Microscópica, an interactive performance at the intersection of biohacking and live coding. Microscoped organisms and their recorded visual parameters are made sound in real time by means of live coding.

Afterwards, the Mexican artist duo Malitzin Cortes & Ivan Abreu, will perform an audiovisual performance for the Klangdom loudspeaker instrument. Here, the technique of live coding is brought together in an innovative way with the expansive sonic possibilities of the Klangdom as well as the data-artistic procedural visual worlds of the duo.

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The event takes place within the framework of the European project On-the-fly and is co-financed by the program Creative Europe of the European Union.

Photo: Antonio Roberts

As many of us are currently enjoying a well deserved break, on-the-fly cantina will also have a break during August.

Grab a beer or tea, and enjoy the summer/winter according to your location.
We will see each other again on September to share more thoughts.

Anne, Dare, Iván, Luka and Patrick
(the on-the-fly research group)

On-the-Fly collaborates with the live coder and artist Laura Llaneli.

Laura is teaching live coding to the students of the Massana Permanent course "Sound Art: concept, recording and editing".

On the 17th of June, they were invited to Hangar to meet the TOPLAP community and participate in a live coding session playing with Sonicpi!

The idea is to broaden the knowledge of Live Coding started at Massana, to deepen it, and to propose a collaborative meeting that will result in a group concert. In this way, women initiated in programming will find a friendly and professional environment to continue their research on Live Coding.

During the workshop, participants will learn how to create and modify visuals from shapes, colors, sound or visual fonts.

The activity will be conducted by Lina Bautista, musician, artist, Toplap Barcelona's co-founder and artistic coordinator of On-the-Fly.

The aim of this workshop is to engage people, especially youngsters in the critical use of open-sourse tools in a creative way, to develop some skills and also to achieve greater gender equality.

Practical informations

• 7th of June
• From 6h:30 to 20:00
• Online & free
• The workshop will be held in Spanish
• Registration is needed

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In the first meeting, La noche – Live coding, Iván Paz will be in charge of a live coding performance, with the visuals of Toni J. Live coding is a performative technique, a form of performance art and a creativity technique focused on writing source code in real time and the use of interactive programming. It is a new direction in electronic music. It is improvising and formalizing in public.

The live coders expose and modify in real time the software generating music or images, while the manipulation of the code is projected so that everyone can follow the process of creation.

The second meeting, La noche – Pecha kucha express & live coding, will consist of a double activity that will combine performance, art, science and technology.

The first part consists of a battery of pecha kuchas, quick presentations in an informal context that make it possible to see many projects in a direct, simple, fast, agile way and establish connections with other similar projects. The first Pecha Kucha will be attended by Joana Moll, Elisabet Romero, Mario Santamaria, Pedro Gómez, Mónica Rikic and Samuel Sánchez. In the second one, Martí Ruiz Carulla, Maciej Lewenstein, Eloi Maduell, Antoine Reserbat-Plantey, Anna Carreras, Reiko Yamada will take part. Both Pecha Kuchas will be moderated by Carolina Jiménez.

As a closure, the second part will be a live coding session by Roger Pibernat, Citlali Hernández Turbulente, Anna Carreras and Lina B Linalab.

Practical information
Day: June 11
Time: 20 h
Place: Plaza Comercial
Type of event: in person with previous registration
+ info La Noche – Live Coding
+ info Pecha Kucha express & live coding

Projects will be presented by:

Shelly Knotts (On-the-fly residency)

Shelly Knotts produces live-coded and network music performances and projects which explore aspects of code, data and collaboration in improvisation. Her experimental and collaborative tendencies have seen her engage with diverse musical practices and styles ranging from electroacoustic tape music to live-coded dance music. Her work often investigates the intersection of data, technology, creative practice with socio-political concerns. This has included the use of network technology to interrogate the inherent politics of collaborative, data-driven and technologically facilitated music making. Based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, she performs internationally, collaborating with computers and other humans.

María García Ruiz (Artistic Research Grant Fundación Banco Sabadell – Hangar)

María García Ruiz is an artist and researcher with a background in architecture. Her work questions the processes by which both spatial arrangements and their associated imaginaries are generated. From there she develops mainly three lines of research: one on the landscape, the relationship between the gaze, space and technology; another on the architecture of bodies in movement; and a third on the territorialities (and deterritorialisations) of flamenco.

Lina Bautista (Research and Experimentation Grant in Hangar’s Interaction Lab)

Lina Bautista holds a Master’s degree in Musical Arts from the Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá, with emphasis in composition.

Since 2010 she lives and works in Barcelona, where she completed a postgraduate diploma in Music Composition with new technologies and a Master in Interactive Systems Design at Pompeu Fabra University and a Master in Sound Art at the University of Barcelona. She was artist in residence at Gracia Territori Sonor in 2010-2011, participating in various festivals such as the LEM, or the Mercat de Música Viva de Vic and in countless concerts of experimental music. With the Linalab project he has performed concerts on stages all over the world. In 2013 she participated in the first live coding meeting in Europe, the Live.coding.fest in Karlsruhe, consolidating herself as one of the pioneers in this field. In 2014, she was artist in residence at the Eufònic festival with the collaboration of the Centre d’Art Lo Pati in the Ebre Delta, together with the artist Laura Llaneli. From 2015 until today she is part of the Orquesta del Caos, an association focused on the diffusion of Experimental Music and Sound Art, and organizer of the Zeppelin festival. In 2018 she formed the collective Toplap Barcelona, a node of the international community Toplap, based on live coding, currently resident collective in Hangar together with Iván Paz, with whom she also leads the European project on-the-fly. In 2019 she presented the installation work post_window at the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria and at Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona as part of the BEEP collection of electronic art. In 2019 she also presented the interactive installation Waveforms at Fundació Miró within the scope of the exhibition Arte Sonoro? from November 2019 to February 2020.

She currently works as a coordinator at Mediaestruch, Digital Art Area of the Estruch creation factory in Sabadell, she is a professor of the Master of Sound Art at the University of Barcelona and of the Sound Art Workshop in the arts degree at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, among other institutions.

Lina Bautista will present together with Julia Múgica the work Kilobots.

Valentina Cardellino (Short-stay residency)

Her practice oscillates between the visual arts and architecture, developing projects of various kinds such as art installations and architectural interventions of urban scale. She is interested in the role of design and architecture in the processes of normalization of the body, in the construction of taste, desire and self-perception. Above all, observing when these designs and processes fail through appropriation, adaptation, deviant use and disobedience. Her approach to this subject is from a performative point of view, from the reiteration of certain rituals and their consequences in our body language. She has worked with manuals and building regulations, in search of those scores that seem to orchestrate our movements. Her recent projects are related to the rituals linked to democracy, and particularly, the demonstrations as the established form of disagreement. She traverses these ideas with the concept of ruin and through a choreographic language.

The event will be carried out following all security measures.

Attendance is free of charge and will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Supported by:

Image: Valentina Cardellino

On May 20th at 06.30 p.m, Hangar hosts "SuperCollider with tea" (a.k.a SuperCollider meeting), a Q&A session dedicated to the practice of live coding through SuperCollider. Shelly Knotts (on-the-fly artist-in-residence) and the TOPLAP-Barcelona live coding community will participate to the initiative.

SuperCollider (McCartney, J. 1996) is a programming language, originally designed for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition that is used for live coding, either as a language or as a sound synthesis engine. SuperCollider can be used in a variety of ways and it is extremely inspiring to understand the different techniques in which people use it. 

The session is also an opportunity to solve doubts derived from the last SuperCollider workshop moderated by live coder Shelly in the framework of ProxySpace. Additionally, the meeting will prepare the next From Scratch live coding session organized by Toplap_Barcelona on May 27th, which will be dedicated to Supercollider. 

References: 

• * SuperCollider: a new real time synthesis language. In Proc. International Computer Music Conference

• A Gentle Introduction to SuperCollider (2nd edition) https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1082&context=faculty_books 

Practical information workshop 

Date: 20 May 

Time: 18.30 h 

Place: Sala Plató, Hangar. c/ Emília Coranty, 16. 

It is necessary to bring a computer (OSX/ Windows/ Linux) and a pair of headphones. 

No registration is required. 

+ info ludovica@hangar.org 

The event is part of the European On-the-fly project and is supported by the Creative Europe programme.

More about live coding

Live coding does not run by a common notation, and the instruments for it are hidden in the computer’s command lines. As a fairly new art form, it’s also an umbrella term that encompasses a fusion of electronic music, visuals, improvisation and live performance. A live coder composes music or visuals and creates an event in front of your very eyes. You can dance or sit or simply allow yourself to become immersed in it all.

The live coding community values shared authorship, open-source and free software, the collaboration between different approaches and a collective atmosphere. For this occasion, the meeting will take place in a hybrid form: on servers and live streams from the venue of osmo/za in the heart of Ljubljana, the new algopolis of live coding.

Programme

• 3pm - 6pm: Bruno Gola: Live coded influences, workshop
• 7pm - 8.30pm: Live coding: for whom and what for? Talk with live coding researchers
• 8.30pm - 11pm: Algopolis, performances from up close and far away
• Co-op{Codes} @ osmo/za, from 10 to 15 May, 1pm–7pm

interactive installation by Bruno Gola

on-the-fly

on-the-fly is a project to promote Live Coding practice, a performative technique focused on writing algorithms in real-time so that the one who writes is part of the algorithm. Live coding is mainly used to produce music or images but it extends beyond that. Our objectives are: supporting knowledge exchange between communities, engaging with critical reflections, promoting free and open-source tools and bringing live coding to new audiences. The project, running from 10/2020 to 09/2022 and co-funded by the Creative Europe programme, is led by Hangar Barcelona in collaboration with ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Creative Coding Utrecht and Ljubljana’s Ljudmila.

Partners: Hangar Barcelona (ES), ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (DE), Creative Coding Utrecht (NL), Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory (SI).

Credits

Concept and production: Dare Pejić
Organisational and production team: Luka Frelih, Robert Mohorič, Dare Pejić, Anže Zorman
Public relations: Tjaša Pureber
Graphic design: Maruša Račič
Proofreading (Slovene): Nataša Martina Pintarič
Proofreading (English): Jana Renée Wilcoxen
Technical support: Valter Udovičić, Luka Frelih
Photo: Katja Goljat, Matjaž Rušt
Participating: Nina Dragičević, Bruno Gola, Luka Prinčič, Giovanni Mori, et al.
Sponsor: Cockta (Atlantic Trade)
Co-production: osmo/za, Radio Študent
Production: Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory

This event is part of the on-the-fly project that is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

Giulia Deval / Niklas Reppel

Date: April 30, 2021
Time: 6 pm
Price: 3 euros

Rarefacció‘s audio will be available live at https://live.hangar.org/#rarefaccio

Guilia Deval

Giulia Deval is a singer and sound artist from Italy working across different formats such as live sets, creation of sound dresses, concerts of imaginary characters and collective actions for voices and magnetic tapes set in dystopian futures. Her latest work Terrapolis, released by the Italian label ANS, is a solo album in which voice and tapes play with the idea of multispecies, creating extra-human sound notes.

Terrapolis is a fictional integral equation, a speculative fabulation.
Terrapolis is n-dimensional niche space for multi species be-coming-with.
Terrapolis is open worldly, indeterminate and poly temporal.
Terrapolis is a chimera of materials, languages, histories. Terrapolis is for companion species, cum panis, with bread, at a table together – not “post human” but “com-post”*

Niklas Reppel

Niklas Reppel (*1983, Witten/Ruhr) is a live coder, composer and audio software developer currently based in Barcelona, where he found a home in the local TOPLAP community. Often he is more involved in making live coding tools (i.e. Mégra, his main performance software) than actually using them. He comes from a multifaceted musical background that features everything from jammy rock bands to contemporary chamber music ensembles, improvisation, eclecticism and Markov chains play a major role in his current live coding works.

For more information, see: https://parkellipsen.de, or, on Mégra: https://github.com/the-drunk-coder/megra

Niklas Reppel performance is part of the European project On-the-fly funded by the Creative Europe Program.

The event will be carried out following all security measures.
Attendance will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

During the day, livecoder Shelly Knotts will give a hands-on workshop that will allow attendees to learn the basics of creating a live coding session, producing soundscapes, beats and patterns in SuperCollider — an open source programming language used to create music —, reactive audio/music installations, interactive systems, live coding and much more.

At the end of the afternoon, there will be six sound and visual performances that explore live coding from different points of view.

The performers who will perform as part of this co-production are:

Shelly Knotts, one of the artists awarded a grant from the On-the-Fly open call. Shelly Knotts is an improviser whose performances collaborate with computers and humans. Her interest in code, data and networks has led her down strange and diverse musical paths, from electroacoustic composition, to jazz and noise music, to Algorave. She experiments with generative and AI techniques and algorithms to make music. She has performed at numerous Algoraves and other live coding events around the world, solo and with collaborative projects such as ALGOBABEZ.

Iván Paz has a background in physics, music and computer science. Ivan’s work is framed in critical approaches to technology focused on from-scratch construction as a technique of exploration. Since 2010, he is part of the live coding community and has presented workshops, conferences and concerts in America and Europe. He is currently working with machine learning techniques while maintaining the real-time feedback characteristic of live coding.

Julia Mújica is a Mexican scientist dedicated to the artistic exploration of the complex processes of nature. With an interdisciplinary background spanning biology and computational physics, she is deeply interested in understanding how collectives make decisions that result in behavioral synchrony. Recently, her curiosity has extended into the artistic sphere, where the process of creation magnifies and prioritizes different aspects of the same phenomenon. Her work includes animated particle design in processing language, noise design from random walk algorithms for modular synthesizers, and collaborations with artist Lina Bautista on rhythm and collective patterns with interactive robots.

Roger Pibernat is an illustrator and musician who constantly explores other artistic disciplines and fields of knowledge. He started working with SuperCollider around 2006. He has been part of the Barcelona Laptop Orchestra and co-founded the Wú collective with which he has developed electroacoustic instruments, audiovisual performances, software and interactive installations. He is currently an active member of the Barcelona live coding community.

Glen Fraser (aka totalgee) is a Canadian software developer who has worked in graphics, sound, interactive and immersive technology for over a quarter of a century. Most of his professional life has been spent creating software tools for artists and collaborating directly with them. His initiation into live coding was in 2013, when he also belonged to the Barcelona Laptop Orchestra and the Wú Collective. Inspired by the TidalCycles pattern language, and following the (cheerfully irrational) live-coder tradition of reinventing the wheel, Glen develops and uses “Bacalao”, his personal collection of live-coder tools for SuperCollider.

Iris Saladino is a sound-oriented creative coder based in Buenos Aires. Member of CLiC (Live Coders Collective). She works live coding music (mainly, but not only) with TidalCycles and visuals with Hydra. She has performed at: UNSaM, UBA, Rolf Art Gallery, Museo Sívori, Museo Moderno, Centro Cultural San Martín, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Centro Cultural Ciencia, Planetario Buenos Aires, Planetario Bogotá, among others. Festivals: Amplify Nano Mutek 2019, BA; Festival Domo Lleno, CO; Festival de Música en Red, DE; Festival No Bounds, UK; Piksel, NO; OverKill, NL; SpamArts, BA. Irís will perform live from Buenos Aires.

Ivan Paz and Julia Mújica’s performance integrates symbolic machine learning for sound synthesis and systems with collective behavior for the visuals.

Shelly Knotts and Glen Fraser will combine broken SuperCollider synths and automatic drum machines with particle and shader effects to create fluid, responsive spaces.

Roger Pibernat and Iris Saladino will work together integrating programming languages such as Hydra, Tidal and SuperCollider to produce sound and visual narratives.

The session will be face-to-face and streamed.

The Algorave will follow its community guidelines.

Practical workshop information
Date: May 5th
Time: 12 noon
Place: Sala Ricson, Hangar. c/ Emília Coranty, 16.
Limited places (15 pax). The workshop is fully booked.
It is necessary to bring a computer (OSX/ Windows/ Linux) and headphones.

Practical information performances.
Date: May 5th
Time: 18 h
Limited places (40 pax). The event is fully booked.

The event is part of the European project On-the-fly and is supported by the Creative Europe program.

Coorganized by: MUTEK ES ; Hangar.org; Toplap Barcelona

The Algorave, a term originally coined in 2012 by Alex McLean and Nick Collins, is generally executed through live coding, writing and modifying algorithms in real time with the computer as the physical interface. Its practice has spread to include, for example, patch modifications or interactions between electronic devices and code. Influenced by the hacker philosophy, in particular by the “open source” concept, the audience’s attention is divided between the music and the code that is displayed and that allows the programming process to be observed. This is why, in essence, an Algorave has a strong improvisational component, is alive and likes to take risks and explore limits.

The session will be on site and streamed.

The performers that will play in the framework of this co-production are:

Alexandra Cárdenas

Alexandra Cardenas’ work focuses on the algorithmic behavior of music and the exploration of musicality within code. She is a core member of the international live coding and algorave community and performs worldwide using the live coding platforms SuperCollider and TidalCycles. Alexandra studied composition at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and later completed a Sound Studies Master’s Degree at Universität der Künste, Berlin, where she has lived since 2013.

Alicia Champlin

Is an American intermedia artist and researcher from Maine, based in Barcelona since 2017. She works primarily with generative systems and sound, using installation and performance to explore aspects of agency and embodiment, with past exhibitions in Austria, Norway, the United States and Spain. Frequencies, resonance and feedback – especially biofeedback – are favorite tools. Champlin also plays the bow chime, sometimes with EEG augmentation. Relatively new to live coding, she is experimenting with the intention of playing in the space between indeterminacy and predictability.

Chigüire

Hailing from the valley of Caracas, Venezuela, Chigüire is the nom de guerre of Jesús Plasencia, a multimedia artist interested in the dialogue between humans and machines. Although they have spent much time using computers as a crude tool to earn money to survive, he found a calling in live coding and computer art in general. Despite being one of the newest participants of TOPLAP Barcelona, they quickly found a home there, and a place to grow in the art of making computers draw and sing, with the hopes of someday getting them to tell us their secrets.

QBRNTHSS

QBRNTHSS (pronounced “quebrantahuesos”, meaning “bearded vulture” in Spanish) is the alias that Ramon Casamajó, musician and computer scientist, uses for his solo works focused on electronics and live coding. As QBRNTHSS he released a split LP (Harry Dean Stanton, Call It Anything Records 2019), and is actively involved in the TOPLAP Barcelona collective. He has participated in online events hosted by the international TOPLAP community. He is part of Turing Tarpit, a duet with whom he has released several works and played regularly in Barcelona’s experimental underground circuit. He also runs the micro record label Call It Anything Records.

Linalab

Linalab is a multiple singularity. It’s a whole and a unity, a solitary sound, and a note. A frequency that remains in time to become more complex, to become entangled, to become noise; melody, song and then silence. Linalab does not only exist on stage. Besides playing at numerous events and festivals, she also understands music as an ongoing process of investigation. She is a producer for the Synth Vicious record label; plays an active role with TOPLAP Barcelona and creates electronic sound devices with Familiar DIY.

Toni J

Toni Jaume is a digital artist, developer and creative programmer interested in generative processes, with a special interest in computer graphics. His research processes about metalanguages and new paradigms are the common thread that is reflected in his interactive pieces and installations that often focus on the language of videogames as a way to consolidate an understandable discourse between the observer and the concept. Through live coding, he explores new ways to elevate creativity to an exponent of constant creation in which improvisation derives generative graphics in a constantly changing world that draws on the concepts of fractality.

Turbulente

Also known as Citlali Hernandez, her work investigates the implications of the body and the use of new technologies in the arts. She has presented some of her projects in various spaces and festivals such as: CCEMx (Cd.Mx), CMMAS (Morelia), GAM Cultural Center (Santiago de Chile), L’Estruch Cultural Center (Sabadell), SALA OFF (Valencia), JustMAD Contemporary Art Fair 15 and 17 (Madrid), ECOSS Festivals 18 and 19 (Barcelona).

She is currently involved in university teaching, is a resident artist at Hangar, the open center for research and artistic production, and holds a doctorate from the University of Vic and BAU, University Design Center of Barcelona. She is also an active member of the Live Coding collective TOPLAP_Barcelona.

The Algorave will follow its community-sourced guidelines.

Practical information
Date: March 26th
Time: 18 h
Venue: Sala Ricson, Hangar. c/ Emília Coranty, 16.
The event is fully booked. You can join the waiting list in this form.

Algorave will be broadcasted live on sonar.es.

The event is part of the European project On-the-fly funded by the Creative Europe Program.

Co-organized by:

Toplap Barcelona, Hangar, On-the-Fly, Sónar Festival

Live Coding meeting organized in HANGAR by Toplap Barcelona. It will take place from March 24 to 27, 2021 in Barcelona (hangar.org).

This meeting is an invitation to learn about this practice, participate and exchange experiences with the community of Barcelona.

For all activities, prior registration is required. You can register here.

Friday 26, 18h

ALGORAVE. Algoraves are events where music generated with algorithms is danced, including the practice of live coding, as well as other approaches to control and perform generative music.
This time with Toni J., Turbulente, QBRNTHSS, Linalab, Chigüire,  Alexandra Cárdenas, Alicia Champlin.

- Jack Armitage (Hangar)

- Shelly Knotts (Hangar)

- Malitzin Cortes & Ivan Abreu (ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe)

- Gaia Leandra  (ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe)

- Branimir Štivić (Creative Coding Utrecht)

- The Twin Stranger (Creative Coding Utrecht)

- Bruno Gola (Ljudmila)

- Anna Carreras (Ljudmila)

We sincerely thank all participants and wish all the best to the awarded artists!

With the support of:

Ph: Paula Leinard

To mark the beginning of On-the-fly, on October 21st 2020 at 7 p.m., Hangar hosts an international Live Coding From Scratch Session where each project partner will propose two live coders.

The sessions from scratch are live performances with specific characteristics. The rules for each livecoder (sound or visual) are:

1. You have to start with a blank screen.
2. You have 9 minutes to play. (9 minutes exactly, no more!)

The session will be mixed: the live coders from Barcelona will meet but other participants will stream their sessions.

Practical information
Date: October 21st, 2020
Time: 19 h
Space: Ricson Room, Hangar. 16 Emília Coranty St.
 

"How can we contextualize live coding practice within the social and political conditions of the present?"

In recent years climate catastrophe, disaster capitalism and the pandemic have affected all of our lives, but social justice movements have highlighted the unequal distribution of their impacts. Technology is often proffered as a solution in global crises, but in many cases contributes for the worse. How does live coding assert or resist techno-utopian narratives? What socio-political anxieties are revealed in our performances? How can we shape our live coding practice or use the attention we are given as artists to foster mindfulness around these topics? Is live coding by itself already a political statement? Or is "L’art pour l’art" still a sensible mindset in live coding practice?

Grab a beer or tea, and come share your thoughts with us on September 14 at 8PM CEST on https://jitsi.hangar.org/ontheflycantina

Anne, Dare, Iván, Luka and Patrick (the on-the-fly research group) together with our guest host Shelly Knotts.