DJing with vinyls, CDs, digital files, Ableton patches, modular synths… it’s all good, but I’ve been fascinated by live coding performers since I first bumped into an event organized in Rome by pioneer live coders AlgoRave. It was 2018, or maybe 2016…
I’ve been following many live coding artists since then, and supporting a few buying their production on BandCamp, but I never mixed any live coding production with non-coded music. It seemed a bit wrong to me, for the high respect I have for live coding performers. I wish my Javascript skills were better to give it a try… So I decided to buy some more live coding music on BandCamp and to dedicate a full 1h30m mix to this amazing way of producing music.
Kudos to Switch Angel and DJ_Dave, very popular live coding producers in my Instagram feed. Not only they’re good, they’re also very educational with their live coding video. They tell exactly what they are doing, which lines or code values they’re changing to create specific sounds, and all that while actually coding and playing live. You’re amazing, girls! Keep doing what you’re doing!
Warning: this mix starts pretty euphoric and dance-y, but you’ll soon find yourself immersed in some dark and highly experimental sounds I can still dance to, so why won’t you? Just give it a try!
DJSET PLAYLIST
In the Beginning, there was Trance – Switch Angel
x=-x.SwitchAngel(-interlude-) – DJ_Dave & Switch Angel
Foundation 1 – Switch Angel
Music is Code you can Hear – DJ_Dave
Live Coding – Calm Lofi Beats
in_to – Aurora Steve
Trombo – Aurora Steve
Always Learning – DJ_Dave & Switch Angel
Memory Leak – DJ_Dave & meat computer
non zen darkness manuever – meat computer
Perro – Mico Rex
Vibe Voltmeter – ==
Hands On Hands Off – Belisha Beacon
live_coding_dark_techno – Aurora Steve
00004 – RAW
Kawaakari Part II – Electric Dreams
Through Others’ Senses – Renick Bell
3-1 – Calum Gunn
Burnnn – Lil Data
Toed – Iván Paz
open air mental asylum – meat computer
L’homme pressé – Caucotte
proyectech – Aurora Steve
DinamiT – Aurora Steve
