NEW THURSDAY CLUB :: Supported by the Goldsmiths GRADUATE SCHOOL and the Goldsmiths DIGITAL STUDIOS :: 6pm until 8pm, Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW :: FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME. No booking required.

Don’t miss the last Club of this academic year on 5 June 6-9 pm, followed by sound performances and wine!!

JUNE 5 with ALEX MCLEAN & DAVE GRIFFITHS: Live Coding:
Live coders program in conversation with their machine, dynamically adding instructions and functions to running programs. Here there is no distinction between creating and running a piece of software - its execution is controlled through edits to its source code. Live coding has recently become popular in performance, where software is written before an audience in order to generate music and video for them to enjoy. McLean and Griffiths have played around Europe together with Adrian Ward as the live coding band “slub”. They will talk about the history and practice of live coding, and give some demos of their own live coding environments.

ALEX MCLEAN has been triggering distorted kick drum samples with Perl scripts for far too long. He is a PhD student at Goldsmiths Digital Studios.

DAVE GRIFFITHS writes programs to make noises, pictures and animations. He makes film effectis software and computer games.

Dave & Alex are both members of the Openlan free software artists collective and the TOPLAP organisation for live algorithm promotion. slub.org ; toplap.org ; pawfal.org/openlab ; pawfal.org/dave ; yaxu.org

*With Sound Performances from: CLAUDEl HEILAND-ALLEN

Claude Heiland-Allen (aka ClaudiusMaximus) is a digital artist from London. He has been using computers to make art for longer than the time he didn’t. As part of GOTO10, working with and creating Free/Libre

Open Source Software gives him freedoms he never had before, and he hopes to become a better workman by building his own tools. http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org | http://goto10.org

EDWARD KELLY
Edward Kelly is a London-based artist working with bespoke live performance software. His work has spanned formal electroacoustic composition, classical score-writing and live electronics. Currently, Dr Kelly is working on a live audiovisual performance system in Pure Data, and the continual redevelopment of this system means that every performance is a premiere as well as an improvisation. Releases of his software reside at sharktracks.co.uk, and as a sometime electro musician his music can be heard at pyramidtransmissions.com (asLone Shark). http://www.sharktracks.co.uk

RYAN JORDAN
Ryan Jordan comes form a noise/tekkno/experimental music background but works with all available medias through the computer. He has organised many events and performances in the UK and has performed nationally and internationally. Jordan’s exploration of sound and music performance with computers led to the development of his prototype MIDI controller, the M.G.I (Movement and
Gesture Interface) which was an attempt at bringing a more physical performance element to laptop and computer music. Now working in the intersection of the arts and sciences he explores and develops systems which merge all medias together through the physical augmentation of the body as a controlling device for computational applications. He is currently studying MFA Computational Arts at Goldmiths, London.

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THE THURSDAY CLUB is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s).

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or visit: http://transition.turbulence.org/networked_music_review/2007/12/04/toplap/#more-2442

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