Resources

Full course material: definitions, history, tool landscape, the Strasbourg scene, glitch art, feedback, Pure Data, free/libre culture.

The association's values and ground rules: openness, sharing, experimentation, community.

Sound visualisation tool developed by the TOPLAP Strasbourg community (beta, 05/2025).

Database for audience interaction information. TOPLAP Strasbourg community tool (05/2025).

Modified version of Hydra by Crash Server. Additional extensions and features for live visual performances (06/2025).

Music theory applied to live coding (alpha version). TOPLAP Strasbourg community tool (06/2025).

Interactive, satirical simulation of a political press conference: three randomly drawn public figures react to your questions, with real-time metrics and escalating chaos. TOPLAP Strasbourg community tool (04/2025, updated 01/2026).

Browser-based audio live coding environment built on shopping metaphors: products become synthesizers, shopping carts provide rhythm, retail concepts control musical parameters. TOPLAP Strasbourg community tool by Crash Server (formerly Supermarket, 04/2025; Rayon, 02/2026).

Small web app for making perfectly loopable audio clips from any file: tempo and pitch detection, snap to beat or zero crossing, crossfades, automatic loop suggestions and WAV export. TOPLAP Strasbourg community tool (05/2025, updated 01/2026).

Sound synthesis discovery tool developed by the community (06/2025). Allows interactive exploration of synthesis techniques.

Browser-based FoxDot live coding environment, developed by Crash Server. Runs scsynth (SuperCollider's audio engine) compiled to WebAssembly: no installation required. Currently hosted on the author's personal server, a dedicated site will follow.

Text-based music programming language designed to stay readable like a score. Less performance-oriented than Sonic Pi or Strudel, but very approachable for composing through code.

Open-source modular synthesis and sequencing environment with visual patching, a hybrid between Pure Data/Max and a live-performable DAW. Editable on the fly during performance.

Strongly-timed, concurrent audio programming language developed at Princeton and Stanford. Sample-accurate timing, widely used in research and live coding pedagogy.

Python-based musical live coding environment using SuperCollider as audio engine. Accessible syntax, popular in the Strasbourg scene.

Browser-based audio and visual live coding environment. Allows coding music and visuals simultaneously in a web interface.

Graph-based audio live coding language, compiled to WebAssembly for low-latency browser performance. A visual, modular-patching-like approach to signal flow.

Minimalist micro-language built on top of SuperCollider, designed for live performance and teaching. Deliberately small syntax to make live coding accessible quickly.

Minimalist live coding language oriented towards pattern composition. Very clean syntax inspired by esoteric languages.

Visual programming environment for real-time audio and video processing. Open source, powerful, used for live sound and video.

Python-based musical live coding environment built for precise sequencing and integration with SuperCollider, MIDI and OSC. Developed by Raphaël Forment.

Musical live coding environment designed for education. Intuitive Ruby syntax, great for beginners and live performance.

Web port of TidalCycles. Runs directly in the browser, no installation needed. Great for beginners.

Real-time sound synthesis environment and programming language for algorithmic composition. Audio live coding reference since 1996.

Haskell-based musical live coding language for complex rhythmic and melodic patterns with concise syntax.

Python port of TidalCycles' pattern language. Lets you write Tidal-style patterns directly in Python, with access to its library ecosystem.

Visual creative coding tool based on WebGL shaders. Browser-based visual programming environment for real-time effects.

3D live coding environment based on Racket. One of the earliest visual live coding tools, developed by Dave Griffiths, historically tied to TOPLAP's origins.

Browser-based live video synthesizer. Inspired by analog video synthesizers. Ideal for real-time visual performances.

Open-source 3D visual live coding environment, with a dedicated scripting language for building real-time generative scenes.

Browser-based 3D visual live coding environment, minimalist syntax designed for quickly improvising generative shapes and animations.

JavaScript library for visual creative coding, inspired by Processing. Widely used for live visual performances and installations.

Visual live coding language by David Ogborn, compiled to GLSL. Designed for live coding ensembles, with smooth transitions between successive program versions.

Platform for creating and sharing GLSL shaders in the browser. Allows coding complex generative visuals in real time.

Visual programming environment for real-time interactive media creation. Used for live visuals and installations.

Hybrid visual programming environment for video processing, 3D graphics and real-time interactive interfaces.

Andrew Sorensen's live coding environment for audio and visuals, combining a high-level language (Scheme) with a low-level JIT-compiled language (xtlang) for precise real-time performance.

"Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo" by viznut: a minimalist virtual machine where very short strings of symbols, in a Forth-like stack language, generate both image and sound in real time. Rooted in the demoscene and bytebeat music.

Esoteric visual sequencer where programming means placing letters on a grid, each letter an operator. Outputs MIDI/OSC to drive other tools. By the Hundred Rabbits collective.

The Eurométropole's digital factory. Longtime host venue for Chaos Labs and TOPLAP Strasbourg workshops.

Strasbourg's community hackerspace, free/libre software culture and critical popular education on technology.

Self-managed artist workshop warehouse, opened in 2010, near Strasbourg's train station.

Non-profit, neutral internet service provider, promoting a free and decentralized internet.

Strasbourg cooperative for free/libre and ethical IT.

French digital-rights advocacy group. Not Strasbourg-local, but a natural ally on privacy and net neutrality issues.