Hi all, With the talk of text based studios (great site btw, Julien) I thought I'd mention http://www.toplap.org which is devoted to the practice of programming music and art live, in front of an audience. Ok, so it's not strictly linux based, but the applications used include Alex Mclean's feedback.pl: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/31/livecode.html lots of supercollider, using jitlib: http://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/566 and some stuff I've written: http://www.pawfal.org/Software/fluxus/ which are all running on linux. The text based nature of the interfaces tend to lead to more flexibility rather than less. The idea is to project the code as part of the performance to allow the audience to see the relationship between the code and the music - and remove the "are they just checking email" syndrome :) ) See also the paper "Live Algorithm Programming and a Temporary Organisation for its Promotion" here: http://www.toplap.org/?Read_Me_Paper cheers! dave
