Abstract
LiveCodeNet Ensamble is a laptop band from Mexico City that approaches computer music improvisation through live coding and a local network. This text discusses aspects of the ensemble's practice related to some elements of the SuperCollider program such as broadcast and history, and the concepts synchrony and collective listening in order to reflect on a collective instrument, group practice, and improvisation in the context of network music and live coding.
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See website for details: LiveCodeNet Ensamble (n.d.).
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The Taller de Audio (until 2014, now Laboratorio de Audio) is a part of the Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City. The scope of the Audio Lab is research about sound and its relation with different artistic practices using new technologies.
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See MuElectro (n.d.).
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See Radiador (n.d.).
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See Toplap (2012) events page.
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See NMF ( n.d. ).
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The series of International Symposia of Music and Code/*vivo*/ were organized by the Taller de Audio de Centro Multimedia from 2012 to 2014. See Vivo (n.d.).
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This code is written in SuperCollider and based on the broadcast connection method and History class. The code was written by Alberto de Campo and Julian Rohrhuber during a workshop of the Symposium/*vivo*/ 2012, and later adapted, by the ensemble, to the necessities of interconnection. See Villaseñor, H. (2014) for the code.
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Villaseñor Ramírez, H. (2017). LiveCodeNet Ensamble: A Network for Improvising Music with Code. In: Bovermann, T., de Campo, A., Egermann, H., Hardjowirogo, SI., Weinzierl, S. (eds) Musical Instruments in the 21st Century. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2951-6_21
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