Cloud Civilisations

Mastering the Digital: How Coding and Music Intersect (ft. Max)

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This is the ‘Mastering the Digital’ series, where digital anthropologists and I deep dive into their diverse research topics.

In this final episode, I speak with Max Roberts about his project on artists who use live coding in their music performances.

Max has a background rooted in anthropology but has since worked across education, healthcare and tech. While gaining extensive experience in product delivery, design, and consulting, Max developed an interest in how platform design influences people's abilities to access technology, leading to his pursuit of digital anthropology.


Some key takeaways:

  • Live coding is a performance style that uses coding languages to create electronic music and visuals at live events.
  • The (perhaps unexpected) marriage between the logical rationality of code and creative practices of music performance has been shown to produce budding forms of artistic expression and creative collaboration with the technology itself.
  • Due to the public nature of live coding performances and the community's open-source approach, live coding has the potential to improve accessibility, digital literacy and public engagement with code.


    • Connect with Max via: https://linkedin.com/in/maxgroberts/

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