Unfest ‘25, Cornea Cochlear Club Curated: Live-coding Party/Showcase

<p dir="ltr">Research background</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">Having done an earlier public experiment in integrating live coding and generation of video using LLMs on the RMIT Vietnam campus, the opening performance of the Beyond 1&0 exhibition for the 10th anniversary of the Digital Media program, the artists made significant refinements to that work and presented it at Unfest '25 in Bangkok. The festival focused on realtime technologies for media, and the festival chose local curators Cornea Cochlear Club to program an event on the closing day of the festival. Cornea Cochlear Club selected our performance for that event.</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">Research contribution</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">As in the Beyond 1&0 Opening Performance, new systems are used for both the generation of music and graphics: the music was live coded in the latest version of Bell's system called Konduktiva, while the graphics were generated in realtime with an improved version of the Touch Designer patch used previously. The improvements made to both the live coding system and the visual system and their interaction provides a model which others may replicate for doing performances in a similar style or with a similar technical structure. Due to additional rehearsals in the intervening period, many aspects of the performance itself have been improved.</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">Research significance</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">By developing these interlocking systems further, the researchers have demonstrated the feasibility of using such a technological arrangement and have also pointed to some of the potentials which still exist to be explored. While the event was curated to include additional experiments with live coding and realtime visuals, to our knowledge there have not been performances by others in Southeast Asia that demonstrate the tight coupling of two such systems using the Open Sound Control protocol. The very high level of synchronization combined with improvisational performance technique has not yet been shown to live in-person audiences here previously.</p><p dir="ltr">All material copyright Renick Bell and Giang Nguyen Hoang</p>