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just opening it all up to people to see more of what's happening, to take part, and to help build the community." Armitage has made her own inquiry on the subject: "I did this empir- ical study on the live coding scene in Europe and the women working in it. The one thing that was made super clear by everyone is that it's the social element of live coding that keeps people involved." Roberts, whose research interests include copyright and open source technology, has seen Algorave become an entrance for many to build their own tools for their Live Coding performances. "I went to a conference in Madrid two weeks ago, The International Conference on Live Coding …" he relates. "I was in one workshop on how to make visuals, and there were about 15 people and 12 of them had made their own tools … We'll have new interfaces for performances. They're making new instruments, essentially … and it will leak out into other music genres." Armitage is struck by Algorave's impact on approaches to live performance: "Diversity pushes Algorave to be a space of experimentation and to forge collaborations with people in dif- ferent mediums … And trying to use Algorave and its openness and its reconfigurability to form new ways of working with each other." For Armitage, live coding provides a chance to see code as a living entity rather than something we just ignore: "We're constantly inter- acting with code in our everyday lives, but it's always behind the interface. It's all around us, and it's becoming more a part of how we understand ourselves, yet so often we don't see code." Roberts sums up Algorave's potential: "We're not the future of anything. We're current prac- tices … informing things and being informed by things. We're creating these new instruments, which will give new approaches to making music, and making visuals, and making live performances." The "Dancing to Algorithms: How to Algorave" Workshop, part of the Coding & Development Track, is on Sunday, March 10 at 3:30pm at the Westin Austin Downtown (310 W. 5th St.). Lush Presents Algorave: Live Coding Party at The Main II (603 Red River St.) on Tuesday, March 12. See schedule.sxsw.com or SXSW GO for more details. continued from p.52 5 4 S X S W O R L D | M A R C H 7, 2 0 1 9 | SXSW.COM "We're just opening it all up to people to see more of what's happening, to take part, and to help build the community." Algoravez. Photo by Antonio Roberts

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