Overview
This researh is grounded in archimusic, a domain that combines both
architecture and music. The conflation of these disciplines result
into works of art and science that sit simultaneously in real-world
and artificial contexts
(Novak 1996)
.
This research is also grounded in the practice of live coding.
Live coding, is a term that can be defined as: a practice
“...about people interacting with the world, and each other,
in real time, via code“
(Blackwell et al. 2022, 2)
. The book,
"Live Coding: A User's Manual", challenges traditional
definitions of live coding, presenting it as more than writing
software in real-time, but as a way people interact with the
world and each other through code (Ibid.).
Having explored a variety of live coding languages, the one aspect I
found that was lacking were languages focused on visual coding, ones
that code three-dimensional geometric shapes. With the intent to create
an instrument for both music and architecture, the lacking aspect of
three-dimensional geometry making was of importance and became
the first problem for this research to address.
The result of these explorations is the
nbcli meta-instrument
.
Author:
magfoto