ICLC 2023 Catalogue PROOF VERSION

Expressing Oneself with Code and World Building

Kofi Oduro (illestpreacha)

In this workshop, participants will see how coding can be used in musical, performative and literary arts, by using tools such as livecoding Youtube, Hydra, Inverse.website and Sonic Pi to name a few. They will see how expressive and creative code will be with the benefit of seeing how it can be use in a collaborative setting. Participants will see how improvised writing and coding can lead to various outcomes, musically, as well as how to use network elements to your advantage when writing or producing work.

Abstract


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In this workshop, participants will see how coding can be used in musical, performative and literary arts, by using tools such as livecoding Youtube, Hydra, Inverse.website and Sonic Pi to name a few. They will see how expressive and creative code will be with the benefit of seeing how it can be use in a collaborative setting. Participants will see how improvised writing and coding can lead to various outcomes, musically, as well as how to use network elements to your advantage when writing or producing work.

In addition to the tidbit above from a previous workshop Expressing Oneself through Code: Coding Beyond the Screen, we will also be looking at how we can take things from our everyday life and put them in alignment. This will take a look at how we can use our own lives to provide data to our code, adding data visualization and sonification to the mix. This allows one to not only be able to express themselves but create a little universe of their choosing.

This framework has been used to make works of horror, sci-fi and fantasy type works and adjacent.

It will showcase how things like data analytics and creative coding can help with things seen in the fantasy/horror genre. From Name generation, Race & Class creation to even building out the tedious and nuisances of building things such as language, spell casting and history in said places.