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tyleretters · May 23, 2021, 12:31am

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saturday, june 5 2021 at 12:30 pacific time

https://twitch.tv/lines_community

flash crash is a celebration of livecoding.

inspired by the global livecoding scene and anchored with the rallying cry “show us your screens!”

following in our tradition of lines community streams, signups are now open. @scanner_darkly, @anxietymachine, and i are organizing with support from @oot and others. more tech details to follow (will probably just do the twitch round robin host thing? open to ideas.) for now:

signup
head over to the lines community discord
get inspired by my favorite artist in the scene, @hellocatfood
start practicing!

more notes:

pre-coding templates/scenes is totally ok!
outboard gear, modular, vsts, etc. are totally ok!
this is envisioned as a performance and not a workshop, so you don’t need to narrate what you’re doing or provide learning resources, etc.

teletype is envisioned to be the star of the show but tidal, hydra, max, orca, supercollider, norns, and any other friends are welcome - just make sure we can see your code while you play!

prizes!

live coding is extremely intimate, vulnerable, and cerebral. it takes courage. to help normalize the trial-and-error nature of scripting we’re offering two prizes:

prize 1: QUANTITY OVER QUALITY WINNER: Filemaker aka @misuba

sometimes things just don’t go your way… over and over again. to the performer that just can’t catch a break the prize is a RADIO MUSIC module. after a long day of hacking, sometimes you just gotta kick back and listen to some (modulated and processed) music.

define a crash?

teletype doesn’t exactly crash, but “crashes” for the prize include, but are not limited to:

any time you get the teletype UNKNOWN WORD message
complete system failures requiring power cycles
infinite loops
feedback glitches
obvious patch misfires
sudden audio dropouts
camera failures
syntax errors
cat ambushes
random friends popping by to sleep on your couch…

prize 2: …I MEANT TO DO THAT WINNER: @attowatt

sometimes things just don’t go your way… until they do! to the performer that discovers the most insanely ill patch/script/movement/technique the prize is a copy of the book FLASH CRASH (i haven’t read it but it looks cool). in 2010 a thing happened. this book is about that.

ilikeorangethecolour · May 23, 2021, 1:19am

This is awesome. I’m too scared to show my screen but looking forward to this a lot!!!

renegog · May 23, 2021, 2:17am

so excited for this, i love using teletype this way! slightly embarrassing to have smart people who actually know how to code watch me fumble around with teletype but maybe it’ll show the teletype-curious how easy it can be — when even simpleton’s like myself can jam so can u.

desolationjones · May 23, 2021, 3:42am

Would a prerecorded video be against the spirit of the event?

tyleretters · May 23, 2021, 4:15am

that’s the fun. we all are.

it isn’t as translatable as you may think. of the percentage of my brain filled with “know how to code” stuff, 80% is like, environment setup, ssh, and bash to enable said coding. of the remaining 20%, half is esoteric gotchas of my languages, the remainder is… maybe applicable?

the grass is always greener i suppose. i envy the ability to come to teletype with a beginners mind!! it’d be a nice garden of all relevant things.

nah… but you have to promise it was done in the first take!!

renegog · May 23, 2021, 5:02am

@desolationjones i look forward to your heavily edited, multi-camera, multi-tracked composition, with cutaway shots and orchestration, where the only screen shown has a cat hitting a keyboard

@tyleretters I’m sure everyone will blush a little teletyping if @scanner_darkly is watching After each performance he can give a breakdown of where our code could have been more concise (jokes, of course, sd is the sweetest )

tyleretters · May 23, 2021, 2:33pm

that’d actually be really rad. maybe chat could do that, too! (in addition to keeping count of crashes!!)

i’m adding updated details about starting with “templates” and pre-recorded videos up above.

scanner_darkly · May 23, 2021, 5:16pm

probably not during the actual streams ) but we could maybe create a separate category on teletype studies discord, similar to “your thesis” category, so people can see the end result and discuss?

synthetivv · May 23, 2021, 10:15pm

Signing up as a (lifelong) time agnostic. Let’s go!

tyleretters · May 24, 2021, 12:38am

yesss!!! i’m so glad you signed up!!!

today i learned how to store chords in a single pattern. z is the chord pointer. pattern 3 is 16 steps long, with groups each group of 4 notes mapping to a chord:

Z + Z 1; Z WRAP Z 0 3              -- increment z; wrap 4 to 0
P.N3; P.START * Z 3                -- use pattern 3; move to the start of this chord group
L 0 3: JF.VOX I N P.NEXT V 4       -- loop through the first 4 JF voices...
                                   -- ...each playing the next note

i feel like i’m furiously building the landing gear on my spaceship as it’s coming into the atmosphere. june 5th is very close!

misuba · May 24, 2021, 4:04am

june 5th is very close!

YES IT IS TYLER

I’m tempted tho

tyleretters · May 24, 2021, 5:12am

2 weeks = 2 months in 2021 time tho

Galapagoose · May 27, 2021, 4:48pm

Excited to be signed up! Watched that @hellocatfood performance last night (twice) & it inspired me to stop thinking about practicing live coding, and just do it. Going to be fun (and definitely not feel like work) using a tool that I wasn’t directly involved in creating haha…

tyleretters · May 27, 2021, 5:04pm

@Galapagoose yaya!!! i’m so excited you signed up!

last call for signups! we’re going to solidfy timeslots tomorrow.

desolationjones · May 27, 2021, 5:37pm

Does anyone else plan on having simple “hold music” for when the patch goes silent?

attowatt · May 27, 2021, 10:13pm

Thanks for organizing this!
Signed up.

tyleretters · May 28, 2021, 1:17am

put-a-drone-on-it

synthetivv · May 28, 2021, 2:52am

I’m officially very stoked for this, really looking forward to seeing all of your sets, and I’m enjoying planning mine. Also, @tyleretters I really like what you did with the time zones in the signup sheet. Killer spreadsheet, man.

egon77 · May 28, 2021, 6:32am

Looking forward to watching this! I’ve been recently binging Teletype Talk and pushing myself into starting patches with an Init Scene more often. This event should be a real learning experience.

misuba · May 28, 2021, 6:48am

Ah dang I guess I have to sign up for realsies