Code Bending: A New Creative Coding Practice

Bergström, Ilias; Lotto, R. Beau

doi:10.1162/leon_a_00934

Cited by 21 publications

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“…This is the case for the Processing programming language [13] developed for artists and designers. The potential of creative coding can also be improved using code bending [14]. Design using our online facility does…”

Section: Aesthetic Abstract Textures By Composition Principles L U I S a L V A R E Z N E L S O N M O N Z ó N A N D J E A N -M I C H E L mentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactive Design of Random Aesthetic Abstract Textures by Composition Principles

2021

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The automatic synthesis of abstract textures is, to some extent, feasible. As evidenced by abstract art theoreticians, one can think of an abstract picture as a tree of elementary shapes interacting according to a short list of compositional laws such as occlusion, exclusion and bordering, and by rendering rules such as transparency, tessellation and color selection. Randomizing the shape generator and the composition and rendering laws yields an algorithm generating random abstract textures. We have designed a user-friendly online tool that implements this algorithm.

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Interactive Design of Random Aesthetic Abstract Textures by Composition Principles

2021

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“…A change to the code requires a program restart, which is not conducive to live coding. In the live-coding paradigm, the artist no longer depends solely upon preexisting algorithms to create the art-the programming is the art (Bergstrom and Lotto 2015), and this can manifest itself as sound changing over time in response to code that is changing or layering on the device. Our goal, therefore, was to treat multiple concurrent compositions running on the device as a standard, "out-of-the-box" feature that does not necessarily constitute an exceptional case when writing compositions.…”

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Rapid Composition for Networked Devices: HappyBrackets

Fraietta

Bown

Ferguson

et al. 2019

Computer Music Journal

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This article introduces an open-source Java-based programming environment for creative coding of agglomerative systems using Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies. Our software originally focused on digital signal processing of audio—including synthesis, sampling, granular sample playback, and a suite of basic effects—but composers now use it to interface with sensors and peripherals through general-purpose input/output and external networked systems. This article examines and addresses the strategies required to integrate novel embedded musical interfaces and creative coding paradigms through an IoT infrastructure. These include: the use of advanced tooling features of a professional integrated development environment as a composition or performance interface rather than just as a compiler; techniques to create media works using features such as autodetection of sensors; seamless and serverless communication among devices on the network; and uploading, updating, and running of new compositions to the device without interruption. Furthermore, we examined the difficulties many novice programmers experience when learning to write code, and we developed strategies to address these difficulties without restricting the potential available in the coding environment. We also examined and developed methods to monitor and debug devices over the network, allowing artists and programmers to set and retrieve current variable values to or from these devices during the performance and composition stages. Finally, we describe three types of art work that demonstrate how the software, called HappyBrackets, is being used in live-coding and dance performances, in interactive sound installations, and as an advanced composition and performance tool for multimedia works.

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“…What is conceptually novel about the above approach is the re-adaptation a programming language intended for artists to instead behave as a plug-in API, thus further increasing the language's usefulness to a context for which it was originally not intended; a specific application of a conduct we have christened code-bending, and detail in a dedicated article [24].…”

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Soma: Live Musical Performance in Which Congruent Visual, Auditory and Proprioceptive Stimuli Fuse to Form a Combined Aesthetic Narrative

Bergström

Lotto

2016

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Artists and scientists have long had an interest in the relationship between music and visual art, leading up to the present-day art form of correlated animation and music called visual music. Current live performance tools and paradigms for visual music, however, are subject to several limitations. The work reported here addresses these through a transdisciplinary integration of findings from several research areas, detailing the resulting ideas and their implementation in three interconnected software applications. This culminates in the art form of Soma, in which correlated auditory, visual and proprioceptive stimuli form a combined narrative.

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Code Bending: A New Creative Coding Practice

Cited by 21 publications

References 7 publications

Interactive Design of Random Aesthetic Abstract Textures by Composition Principles

Interactive Design of Random Aesthetic Abstract Textures by Composition Principles

Rapid Composition for Networked Devices: HappyBrackets

Soma: Live Musical Performance in Which Congruent Visual, Auditory and Proprioceptive Stimuli Fuse to Form a Combined Aesthetic Narrative

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