awesome-livecoding

The home of Live Coding

French-speaking information website on Live Coding

Directory of local TOPLAP nodes / live coding collectives:

Old school email discussion list, going since 2004!

A web-based 'discourse' forum for in-depth discussion and exchange around live coding

A discourse forum for TidalCycles (including for the )

from the monome community, with loads of general music tech threads including

cross-community live coding chat + discussion

Official TOPLAP mastodon instance:

List of livecode communities and projects on mastodon:

Other live coding-related and -adjacent instances include: , and

General live coding-related accounts include:

The Live Coding subreddit

Archive of demoscene related live coding events

ANSIedad

Generate visuals through a terminal emulator using ANSI escape codes

Live coding Clojure in Unity3D

Arepl

Live coding Python in VSCode

A modular synthesiser that runs in the open source programming language Pure Data

blink

A library which allows you to edit source code of any Windows C++ project live at runtime

Bonzomatic

GLSL and HLSL live coding environment, originally designed for live coding competitions at demoparties

A Javascript utility that turns CSS into sound in the web browser, for audio / visual performances

CaosBox

A non-common live coding and algorave sequencer written with SuperCollider

CHmUsiCK

Library to make ChucK a 'more algorave like' language

cl-collider

A SuperCollider client for CommonLisp

Cowbells

A Clojure library for musical experimentation and live coding

dafxpipe

Software for live coding audio effects and synths

diatonic

Diatonic transforms for music making

disclojure

A live coding environment for Overtone and Leipzig

A multi-language live coding system with support for multiple languages in a single session

General purpose (console, webservice, audio, graphics) live coding framework in Haskell

EspGrid

Synchronization and sharing for network music

Extramuros

Language-neutral shared-buffer networked live coding system

Web-based P2P collaborative editor for live coding music and graphics

Collaborative live GLSL coding environment, additive/spectral/granular synthesizer

WebGL live coding performance IDE

Gibberwocky

Use Gibber inside Max/MSP and Max4Live

Lua 2D game engine with live coding capabilities

glslViewer

Live GLSL coding render for macOS and Linux

A Haskell SuperCollider client

HYLOGEN

An embedding of GLSL in Haskell

Music/DSP programming environment for Common Lisp

INSTRUMENT

For live coding music and interfacing musical instruments and controllers in SuperCollider

isobar

A Python library for algorithmic composition by expressing and constructing musical patterns

jet-live

A library which implements c++ hot code reload approach for Linux and macOS

Real-time GPU shader editor, live-code performance tool and graphics prototyping sketchpad

LiCK

Library for ChucK, provides intervals, chords, scales, arpeggiators, patterns, effects, etc

Live Coding Toolkit

A suite of Pure Data abstractions (predefined functions) for musical live coding

An experimental web project for creating an audiovisual experience from YouTube videos using code in real time

LiveCore

Library for live coding inside Reaktor Core

LÖVELive

Live coding framework for LÖVE(2D Game Engine)

Lua2SC

Lua client for superCollider scsynth and supernova

Code music in Javascript that plays in your DAW or browser

Petal

A small language on Sonic Pi with similar syntax to TidalCycles

pytebeat

A piece of software for doing livecoding performances

P5LIVE

p5.js collaborative live-coding vj environment!

p5-live

Live Coding for p5.js

REPL Mode

This mode adds in a Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop console to Processing 3.0

Republic

SuperCollider library for conversational coding

Ronin

LISP repl for graphics livecoding

s2hs2

An interface between TidalCycles and Processing

Siren

A tracker interface that embodies abstractions where programming is realized as the medium for pattern sequencing in a modular fashion

sonic-pixels

Interactive lighting effects for Sonic Pi

Supriya

A Python API for SuperCollider

Auto-generates patterns for TidalCycles (requires editor)

tidal-chord

An add-on to the amazing live coding project TidalCycles

TidalFX

A haskell package adding weirder effects to Tidal from non-standard UGens

tidal-maxmsp

Connecting the Tidal live coding environment to MaxMSP

TidalUnity

An interface between TidalCycles and Unity 3D

Tidal-Unity

TidalCycles meets Unity 3D

tida1vm

Another TidalCycles environment inside Docker

tidebox

TidalCycles live coding environment inside a Docker container

A NodeJS package filled with methods designed for algorithmic composition

Troop

Real-time collaborative live coding with FoxDot

Real-time GLSL editor for Atom

WavTexture

A Unity example showing how to bake a waveform of an audio clip into a texture and use it in a shader

Editor that allows live coding using Lua language

Resident Advisor

Shelly Knotts+Joanne Armitage / workshop supported by YSWN + LCRN

A documentary about PowerBooks UnPlugged, "the first acoustic computer band"

Documentary in The Guardian

A Documentary about live coding practise by Louis McCallum and Davy Smith

2019 documentary w/ interviews with live coders

Open access book, published by MIT Press

Obscurantism is dangerous. Show us your screens

Nick Collins - Durham University

Thor Magnusson - Department of Music - University of Sussex

MixMag magazine article about live coding (2017)

Wired magazine article about live coding (2006)

Conference papers, book chapters and journal articles

A piece of history

Videos, articles, and papers

Alan Blackwell, Alex McLean, James Noble, Julian Rohrhuber (2014)

Guide on how to live code in SuperCollider based on the performance practice of live coder co￥ﾡpt

Another part of the Guardian’s underground music series (2017)

Embrace the alien sounds of raves from the past, and introduce alien, futuristic rhythms and beats made through strange, algorithm-aided processes

Algorithmic music streams, mainly live coded and/or algorave but possibly also stranger things

Algorave Guidelines

Guidelines to host an Algorave

International Conference on Live Coding

Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modeling, and Design

International Conference on Live Interfaces

New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference

The Web Audio Conference

Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces: performance and craft

Awesome Creative Coding

Creative Coding, Generative Art, Interaction Design, Resources

Awesome Audio visualization

A curated list about Audio Visualization

Awesome Music

A categorized collection of awesome music libraries, tools, frameworks and software

Awesome Live Coding Music

A curated list of awesome Music Live Coding Music environments, libraries and talks

An historical list of languages to produce music

awesome-musicdsp

A curated list of Oli Larkin's favourite music DSP and audio plug-in frameworks

Awesome SuperCollider

A curated list of SuperCollider stuff

Awesome TidalCycles

An awesome list about the pattern-based live coding system TidalCycles (or just 'Tidal' for short) and its close relatives