 Hola, buenas tardes. Hi. Actually, I will talk about also live coding and different projects that are related with that but that are not only that thing or that technique. But well, I studied graphic design. I don't remember but maybe a long time ago. I was really tired of graphic design and I really wanted to go somewhere else because I don't know. I felt really, I don't know, sad and maybe because I felt restricted. So I started to explore. Because I was playing guitar a long time ago and then I really wanted to study music or maybe to do music, maybe not study, just play music. But all my graphics were related with music or with sound and I didn't find the way to explore sound and music live because I really liked to play live. So I took some workshops and things. Actually, I'm from Mexico. So I took some workshops in the National University of Mexico that is pretty cool. You should go there. It's a real city. It's really big. They have a lot of school tours. I don't know. The point is that I started to take some workshops about video. I was doing some final cut. I don't know. I really like some filters and stuff but I was tired of the effects. So then one day I went to a workshop. I didn't have idea what was happening there. But I arrived to a place in which the professor bring us this software. I was really scared. I never coded before. So or like coding something. So then the point is almost the same. Like you can write here. This is a kind of, I think it's Lisp. Actually, I'm not sure at all. I just learned some works. And what I really like of this is like I also really like to write poetry. So in a sense for me was really, really nice. Maybe this could be something great like Libre, for example. Yeah. And then maybe it will work. Yeah. So it's working. Oh. So there is a plane. And in this software we have different shapes. For example, this is a really nice one. I love this. And then actually I never worked with 3D before Fluxus. So Fluxus for me was really mind blowing because I started to work with different things that I never used. But the most exciting thing, I was really close to, I don't know, to leave the workshop and like to say, no, no, no, this is not something I can because I don't know. We have a lot of ideas about how difficult it is to code maybe or at least I had those ideas. But then the professor that was Luis Navarro showed us this really nice function that is GH1. Actually, I'm not sure what it means. Actually, I'm not sure about a lot of things what they really mean. But for me, coding is a practice of intuition just to play with the words and to see what's going on. So then this is, for example, an audio reactive simple sketch. Like, oh, yeah. So when I see this the first time, I was like, I want to do this all my life. So here I am. It's kind of fun because it was the first time that I went or I was able to see a real relation even if it's like, I don't know, like not really, I don't know, it's just a cube. But then I started to explore this for some years in the most weird places that you can imagine that what I really like of this thing or when I start like coding is like, I obviously play with a lot of friends in Mexico. For example, this more complex or something like in Mexico, we it was really cool because in Mexico, we have this amazing friend is called Tito Romero, who is a musician that plays more cumbia and different folk music from Mexico. So he was in charge of a lab. It was called Audio Lab of the Media Center or something like. So he learned Super Collider. He was really, he is really good actually with Super Collider. I really recommend if you want to listen, me corrects, who is like an excellent project. Maybe we should put some music. But well, the point is that Tito started to organize some sessions on first he impart a lot of Super Collider workshops free and maybe 10 people came. So we started to share to learn Super Collider. But then I came to the Fluxus workshop. So then we did that kind of combo. It was always like this video. I don't know if it sounds. We follow because we believe in Tito. And the rule was 10 minutes from scratch. So he put two computers, one with Fluxus, the other one with Super Collider or sometimes you also can put your computer over there. And I think that was amazing because he started to feel a kind of community or a sense of community that we start to grow there. Maybe seven years ago, something like 2011. And it was this kind of explorations. Start from scratch, Super Collider, Fluxus, sometimes other things. We also had really nice explorations. Once I remember one guy was live coding a real oscilloscope. I don't know. A lot of things one day I passed in front of a real big audience the first time that it was because usually we were only 10 persons in the room. They're the same persons that code. But that day it was like in the Pono Teca Nacional of Mexico. So I just went to be late. No, I arrived early, but I decided to smoke some weed. So I forget all the words. So when I arrived the place, I called it 10 minutes and nothing happened. I was really sad. But that day I understand maybe the real meaning of the sessions that were celebrating the error. Like nothing's happened. Just like celebrate, write something in front and have a good time. So then I don't know. I was trying to say a lot of things, but maybe I will go straight to some interesting things. What I like is that, yeah, of course I really like algorithm. I went to study to the UK two or three years ago. I had the opportunity to study with Alex McLean. So actually I couldn't install Tidal Cycles because it was a really long process. Before now it's a bit less complicated, but still being like today we had a lot of troubles in the kind of workshop that we had. And the point is that, ah, here is a video. Maybe we should see it. Because, for example, Mike Hotnick is a really, really nice person and musician. He's like, yes, he's good. Well, of course, that was an algorithm in Hamilton, Canada. Then I went to Hamilton because we started to organize a conference. It's called International Conference on Live Coding. And then I started to, I went to Montreal. I started to share live coding with some people. At the beginning I didn't find a lot of people exploring live coding. Okay, I went to Montreal now. So the good thing or something that I really celebrate is that I started to collaborate with musicians or with people that are not doing live coding, but instead they are doing more like live electronics and live crisis to a lot of improvisation. So we ended doing this album that maybe will sounds maybe not. I'm not sure will be sad if not. Ah, okay, it's not sounding. But, okay. But, ah, okay, let's try. One more time. Please. No, it's not. Okay. Yeah. All the beats are live coded. But Mark is singing a friend of me. Listen, thanks. From these people in Montreal, I think it's like I was a bit unsure how deep I was able to go doing live coding. I mean deep maybe in a sensible way because I can remember the first also relation I had, for example, learning processing was with Juan Manuel Escalante, who is a well-known, at least in Mexico, I don't know, architect actually, but he is promoting a lot. I think now he's tired of the screen, so he's just like drawing, but he introduced me to processing. And what I really like of that is like he always say those. This is the work of Juan Manuel. He always say those. The most important thing is to find your own voice. He put a really nice example about Bob Dylan. He said like maybe a lot of people don't think that Bob Dylan, I don't know, doesn't sing really well because he's not like a good voice or something like, but nobody sings like Bob Dylan, right? So maybe the important point is to find your own voice and then to say something that you want to see or to say. Because maybe sometimes when you have the power of a computer you can put 300 circles or something like that, but maybe you only need to put one that is meaningful or something like that. So I always find important to talk about that because it's the point where I started to think in live coding. And then what I'm trying to do now is like for sure explore a lot of different things. But I want to show you some of the most, how can I say, like, non-common collaborations I experienced. This was with Tito Romero. All the songs were made with percolators and the visuals are mine. So I just played with some cats using tidal and processing. Actually, these are pictures of his cat. We had this short jump. People were close to leave because they were not really enjoying it. So I don't know, it was fun. But then I started to understand a bit more code like how to write algorithms. In that sense, I think also other thing that is important or meaningful for me is this web page that for me is amazing. It's toplab.org. So toplab is a kind of organization that promotes live code and putting the rhythm into algorithms. There is a manifesto that I really like, some parts of this manifesto. But I found really important for what I do or where I am understanding algorithms this time, that live coding is not about tools, algorithms are about so I really enjoy to think that way. And also I really like to expose my process. Sometimes it fails or sometimes it sounds really weird or like with noises or like, but I think celebrate that is kind of the, I don't know, of a way to, I don't know. Maybe for me it's a lot of things but also have fun. Then another this is a really nice video. I like it, but I don't like that they put the music like a track. But I, this is also an unusual collaboration I did with the Art, Culture, Autochthon in Montreal. There is a group that organized a night every month. And I was playing with a friend, he's called Kiko. He's doing T.J. Kiki, who is Inuit from the Autochthon communities of T.O.T.A.K., that now is called Montreal. And I played some visuals. I was really happy to collaborate with this project, this career that is a really nice bar there. If you are close, there are a lot of crazy, good friends. So, yeah. Well, the point is that I was doing this for maybe three years, something like that. At some point I realized that I was also able to create graphics that I wasn't before. So, I started to explore how can I come back to graphic design or something like, maybe with a different perspective. So, I started to use these kinds of things that are processing, but like trying to explore, for example, these are vectors. So, I really like this because before using code, maybe it was really complicated. Actually, I also did this kind of maps, like the lines over there are created with a library in Illustrator that is called Scriptographer. So, you can put that plugin that is GS and then edit the code to create organic lines or things like that. Then, I created the image of the ICLC last year that was in Mexico. This was created with the software I shared with Nail and Ale this morning that actually is a collaborative project I did with Alex McLean. It's between processing and tidal. So, you can control patterns. Tidal is a software to control patterns or to create patterns. So, you can create rhythms. But you also can control whatever you want. So, I started with this idea of controlling letters in order to play with concrete poetry. And then, I ended with this kind of explorations in which I created patterns with the letters and rotated it. And the image of the conference, it was always changing. The colors in the background were an exploration from my friend Karen, who exploded BBB. That software that is also similar maybe to Pure Data I didn't spread much of visual programming, but I think it's visual programming. Then, this is like audio-reactive graphics, but just like screens of that audio-reactive graphics. This one maybe was an installation. But then, I also started to explore this. It's more like logos or like graphics. Some 3D stuff, collaborations. This was a photogrammetry of one of my friends that another friend did in Montreal. And then, I put inside processing, play with that. It's not working. Come on. Well, something happened there. Maybe we should... Uh oh. Yeah, also, this was one of my first explorations with processing. More about... Actually, I did a book with this algorithm. It was called Entre Nebles. It was exploring that relation between poetry and code. Then, different things. I think the last one is the one I want to show you. I also did a lot of flyers for algorithm that actually is what I really enjoy in life. But it's sad that I can't receive something for my life. I was in a festival in Montreal. They invited me to play visuals in an air dance festival to celebrate peace. It was a lot of people really interested in seeing some mandalas. So I started from this class and I arrived with this. And then this photo for me is like a really good memory. So I think I will end with this. Thank you.