ICLC 2023 Catalogue PROOF VERSION

DEF FUNCTION(DYSTOPIAKIRA)

Ryan Ross Smith (The Wookie), Shawn Lawson (Obi-Wan Codenobi)

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Program Notes

Neo Tokyo, ca. 2019, 31 years after World War III, Akira awakens. This homage is an audiovisual, live-coded performance remixing and re-envisioning the 1988 classic film created in the year of its setting, 2019 and reimagined now in 2022.

The Rebel Scum (aka Shawn Lawson and Ryan Ross Smith aka Codenobi and The Wookie) use the code editor Jensaarai to collaboratively and simultaneously live-code TidalCycles and Python, each supported by SuperCollider and Touch Designer on the backend respectively.

Abstract


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Neo Tokyo, ca. 2019, 31 years after World War III, Akira awakens. This homage is an audiovisual, live-coded performance remixing and re-envisioning the 1988 classic film created in the year of its setting, 2019, and reimagined now in 2022.

The performers use the code editor Jensaarai to collaboratively and simultaneously livecode TidalCycles and Python, each supported by SuperCollider and Touch Designer on the backend respectively.