The annual festival Sound Days in Liepāja (Latvia) is calling out to all Baltic live coders, and anyone who is interested in this topic of creating music and art with code, to join us in the first Baltic Live Coders Meetup (BLCM) on April 25, 2025.
The BLCM aims to bring together live coders from the three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – to foster exchange, get to know each other and to create opportunities for further cooperation. It is embedded within the festival Sound Days, that takes place in Liepāja from April 22 – 26, 2025. On Friday, April 25 during the BLCM there will be an opportunity for live coders to present their work and to exchange ideas, culminating with an Algorave with international and local artists in the evening and night. If you cannot make it to Liepaja on that day, you can also participate in the event remotely.
To better plan this event we kindly ask for everyone interested in attending to fill out this form until February 16, 2025. Later applications to attend the Baltic Live Coders Meetup will still be considered, but having a good overview of attendance early on is vital for our plannings. Application form: https://forms.gle/F5p6rg7caumwnzKT9
Attendance is free of charge. Unfortunately, at this time, accommodation and travel expenses cannot be covered. If you want to attend, but are not sure if you can make it, please anyways fill out this form and leave a note about it at the end. We can provide a formal letter of invitation in order to apply for funding individually.
If you have the time, we also want to invite you to join us for the whole Sound Days festival. There will be another performance night on April 26th for you to enjoy and you can apply and attend a 4-day Workshop from April 22nd to 25th. Applications for workshops will be open one month before the festival:
Lina Bautista (CO/ES) “Introduction to Live Coding with Mercury”
linalab.com
Jasmin Meerhoff (DE) “Computational Poetry”
nervousdata.com
Patrick Borgeat (DE) “~ Colliding Waves ≈ Waves Colliding ~”
borgeat.de
Florencia Alonso // Flor de Fuego (AR/DE) “Hydra: Live Coding Visuals for Live Performances”
flordefuego.xyz
hydra.ojack.xyz
Ioanna Vreme Moser (RO/DE) “Sizzling Semiconductors. Politics of Parts”
ioanavrememoser.com
Jan Georg Glöckner (DE/LT), Tatjana Frenkel (LT) “Biotechnology Radio”
jan-gloeckner.com
Kaspars Jaudzems (LV) “Building Audio-Reactive Sculptures”
kaspars.cc
Rihards Vītols (LV) “Creating Generative AV Art from Nature Data”
vitols.xyz
The festival is organised by “ASTE. Art, Science, Technology, Education” and “RTU Liepāja Academy” and will be hosted in the “RTU Liepaja” Art Research Laboratory (MPLab), Kūrmājas prospekts 13, Liepaja, Latvia.
Sound Days are made possible by the support of Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, “RTU Liepaja Academy”.
Sound Days is a satellite event of the International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC).
A look back to “Sound Days” festival in 2024: https://aste.gallery/en/sound-days-2024-2/
Video documentation re-cap of 2024: https://fb.watch/xd0QwOHSsW/
If you have any further questions please contact us: skana@aste.gallery
We look forward to your responses!
http://sound.mplab.lv
