Live coding in laptop performance

@article{Collins2003LiveCI,
  title={Live coding in laptop performance},
  author={N. M. Collins and Alex McLean and Julian Rohrhuber and Adrian Ward},
  journal={Organised Sound},
  year={2003},
  volume={8},
  pages={321 - 330}
}
Seeking new forms of expression in computer music, a small number of laptop composers are braving the challenges of coding music on the fly. Not content to submit meekly to the rigid interfaces of performance software like Ableton Live or Reason, they work with programming languages, building their own custom software, tweaking or writing the programs themselves as they perform. Often this activity takes place within some established language for computer music like SuperCollider, but there is… 
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