Live Coding
Wait, you can code music!?
I became interested in code as an artistic medium when I joined my first lab in 2023: the NYU Ability Lab, directed by Dr. Amy Hurst. I first joined the group as a member of the Everyday Assistive Technology Vertically Integrated Project (EAT VIP) where I started working with Dr. William Payne on FiLOrk— a live coding music ensemble for blind and low vision high schoolers at the Filomen D’Agostino Greenberg (FMDG) Music School. It was this that sparked my love for creative coding.
FiLOrk
Every Saturday, from 3:00pm-5:00pm for a semester, you could find me at FMDG music school on the Upper East Side. I was there as a teacher’s assistant and research assistant for a live coding ensemble called FiLOrk. I came because I was interested in music and accessibility, but I stayed because I became interested in code. After the semester was over, I helped to interview half of the participants about their experience. Thought this qualitative data, I coded themes, and then we synthesized these findings into “Different and Boundary-Pushing:” How Blind and Low Vision Youth Live Code Together. We then presented this paper at the ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C)
Digital Ethnography
Second Publication:
Exploring Technical and Creative Posts in Online Live Coding Communities: An Analysis of Tidal Club and in_thread
After we were finished for the time being with FiLOrk, we wanted to understand diversity within the medium of live coding. We started somewhere foundational where we analyzed posts in two online live coding forums: Tidal Cycles’ TidalClub and SonicPi’s in_thread. Below is the poster that will be presented at the AMC International Conference on Supporting Group Work: GROUP ‘25 in Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA from January 12-15, 2025.
