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  • Live coding is not about tools. Algorithms are thoughts. Chainsaws are tools. That's why algorithms are sometimes harder to notice than chainsaws... Live coding may be accompanied by an impressive display of manual dexterity and the glorification of the typing interface.

    From TOPLAP manifesto.

    April 1, 2009

  • More prosaically: 'It might just be the most conceptually complex way of making music that modern man has yet devised.

    'But that is the challenge of live coding - the process of writing computer code, in real time, to compose and play music or design animations.'

    August 28, 2009