AbleLemon

So today was the day that I presented my paper along with Alex Harker, you can find the details of the paper on this page.

Presentation went well and was fun to do with a great performance by Alex.

Skipped the formal banquet and instead enjoyed a meal in a small restaurant where the waiter refused our order and insisted on bring his own choices instead. Turned out to be very good and eventually left and unintentionally gate crashed a 21st birthday.

The rain fall was however epic with almost as much rain bouncing up as down.

Also arranged some interviews for theAudioPodcast and ate lunch with some friends from previous ICMCs.

An interesting early paper session today looking at analysis and synthesis followed up by some good demos including a detailed look at Gibber.

Lunch with the TOPLAP crew (who launched the new web site design today) was good before getting to the Improv paper session.

Then off to the Improv papers which were very interesting even if my glass exploded mid session.

Enjoyed an afternoon off doing some preparation for tomorrows paper session.

Returned to the Jazz club which was open and had a great time including the birth of a new super cool project, code name TEX.

Day 2, no music, survived.

The first day of talks today, with a great livecoding paper session with highlights including looking at Gibber and recent additions to ChucK. Followed up by a TOPLAP lunch and a discussion of all things livecoding.

Later in the evening I sat through an entire concert which had a typical mix of great and not so great moments. Was fun to hear Julio D’escriván livecoding in IXI lang, though the concert featured some Chuckle brother-esque stage craft from the technical team and a near performance disaster.

Ljubjana continues to amaze with its friendliness and the sun shines on which is nice and the food is great enjoyed a kebab and pizza today. Another great find is the home made style lemonade which comes very sharp but with suger so you can sweeten to taste.

Anyway day 1 survived on to day 2…..

Today the only formal activity is the evening concert so had another explore of the city including the castle and the side of the city further away. Also retraced some of the previous evening explorations in the daylight.

Enjoyed some incredible pizza, in fact all the food has been amazing and lots of ice tea and fresh lemonade.