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I practiced writing that code for about a day before I could write it flawlessly in one take. I guess, in a similar fashion to how a musician will practice usin

• stygianguest 15y ago
  That only holds for some kinds of playing. How is your experience with improvisation? Can you manage quick changes? Or does it always tend to be a slow buildup of rythms harmonics and melodies?
  • swannodette 15y ago
    Improvisation requires plenty of practice - http://www.amazon.com/Improvisation-Its-Nature-Practice-Music/dp/0306805286 http://www.amazon.com/Improvisation-Its-Nature-Practice-Musi...
    • stygianguest 15y ago
      Apparently my question is not clear. I'm asking this as a musician who does a lot of improvisation. The question is wether livecode improvisation is comparable. The most enjoyable thing in improvisation, are sudden changes that can emerge in a good session. You typically have less than a second to react to such things. That is, less than a second to change rythm/feel, tempo, harmonics, volume, etc. More often than not all at the same time. Playing like that makes you feel part of the organism from which the music emerges, rather than a thinking actor in a rehearsed play. A feeling that I only find in dancing and other things I do with my wife. I would really like to get into this livecoding stuff, and have tried ChuCK and SuperCollider. Clearly I never practiced enough to improvise in the live, but I'm wondering if it is at all possible in the sense I described above.
• jianshen 15y ago
  And in a similar fashion, after a musician/coder practices enough, improvisation will come naturally. Thanks again for putting this together.