Livecoding Music and Graphics in the browser

Livecoding, or the act of coding in front of an audience, possibly with your code exposed on a big screen, is kind of a niche art form, with environments like SuperCollider and Impromptu being the most popular choices. I went out to try to build a minimal, capable and usable environment that would run in a modern web browser. I will talk about (and demo) the system itself, but also will speak about the challenges and the details of my solution.

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1. jan@krutisch.de Jan Krutisch Livecoding Music and Graphics in the Browser
2. jan@krutisch.de Jan Krutisch Livecoding Music and Graphics in the Browser
3. jan@krutisch.de Jan Krutisch Livecoding Music and Graphics in the Browser
4. jan@krutisch.de Jan Krutisch Livecoding Music and Graphics in the Browser http://thesinglepageapp.com/
5. Music
6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pelegrino/2617086780/
7. http://www.berlinc64club.de/
11. www.renoise.com
12. programming music
13. Live performance
14. Live coding
16. impromptu
17. impromptu SuperCollider
18. impromptu SuperCollider Overtone
19. Web Audio API
20. Chrome, Safari, (Firefox)
24. liv3c0der
25. liv3c0der
26. liv3c0der http://github.com/halfbyte/liv3c0der
28. called on requestAnimationFrame
29. called on requestAnimationFrame called for every pattern cycle
32. The revolution will not be televised.
33. Lessons learned
34. F**k purity
35. Don't worry too much about crashes (they will happen anyway)
36. (Optimize for quick recovery)
37. Music & Graphics too much
38. F**k browser compatibility.
39. Powerful runtime
42. http://webaudiohacks.com/
43. Thanks. Questions?