Basic SuperCollider + Acid Live Coding = Salted Jam

In this seminar we will introduce basic elements of SuperCollider, which is a Smalltalk-based, dynamic, object-oriented language, suited for algorithmic composition, audio synthesis and processing.

Some considerations on live coding (musical performance consisting of writing programs in real-time), algorithmic composition (generating compositions with algorithmic processes) and laptop orchestras will also be presented.

With the aforementioned ingredients an experimental laptop jam envolving all the participants will take place. So bring your laptop with SuperCollider installed. Within Linux install the packages:

• supercollider
• supercollider-doc
• supercollider-vim (if you like vi) or
• supercollider-emacs (if you prefer emacs ...)

Installers and GUI for MacOS and Windows are available in: http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/downloads/

Supercollider files that will be used on the presentation:

• http://www.ime.usp.br/~ag/sc_basico_ag.scd
• http://www.ime.usp.br/~ag/jam_salgada_ag.scd