NOTAM Meetups: Spring 2026

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Hi all!

We’re back with another season of SuperCollider Meetups facilitated by our friends at Notam! These online meetups will take place approximately once a month on Zoom at 7pm CET (Oslo Time):

SuperCollider meetup:
Meeting ID: 974 3258 0111
Link: Launch Meeting - Zoom

At these meetups, SuperCollider users (usually 2 per meetup) present a project, class library, instrument, or artistic practice featuring our favorite audio programming environment. These presentations are informal, vary in their format, and are intended to showcase the diversity and flexibility of expression our beloved SC permits.

If you’re interested in presenting a project/workflow/tool/whatever at one of the Meetups, send me a DM and I’ll find a slot for you - absolutely everyone is welcome to share! In the week before each meetup I’ll return here to present info about the forthcoming presenters, so be sure to follow this thread via the :bell: on the right!

All community events at Notam fall under the NOTAM Code of Conduct to make them as inclusive as possible. If you have accessibility related requests or questions about the meetup, please send me a message and I’ll do what I can to address them! (Regarding this, I still haven’t been able to find a secure video chat solution that doesn’t require login; these meetups have had considerable issues in the past with disruptive bots, trolls, etc. so until I find a suitable solution, the meetups require a Zoom account.)

Despite frequent requests, the meetups are unfortunately not recorded. One of Notam’s goals with these meetups is to keep them casual, inclusive, and low-pressure, and a previous host of the meetups found that recording them led to less engagement, fewer questions, etc. from participants. Also, we don’t really have the infrastructure to store/edit/publish the footage (Notam also hosts meetups for Max/MSP, spatial audio, etc.). Buuuuuttt…that doesn’t stop users/presenters from sharing their notes/slides/code on this forum or elsewhere!

The meetup dates for spring 2026 will be:

2026-03-26T18:00:00Z
2026-04-22T17:00:00Z
2026-05-20T17:00:00Z

Looking forward to see you there!

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Our first presenter of the spring is @nescivi!!

In the project Dynamic Light Patterns Studies, I am exploring the compositional and performative possibilities of new light instruments to generate dynamic light patterns. From an interdisciplinary background in electronic music and interactive art, I intend to research how I can make a performative experience where light is a dynamic, temporal visual experience, rather than a static image. In the talk I will show how I use the Ledscape software to drive the individual LEDs of the ledstrips, together with SuperCollider.

Link to video: Dynamic Patterns of Light Study #0

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Marije Baalman is an artist and researcher/developer working in the field of interactive sound and light art, based in Amsterdam. She makes music, music-theatre performances and installations. She is interested in the realtime components of the work, composing processes, behaviours and interaction modalities. Topics that she addresses with her work are the nature of interaction between and entanglement of humans and technology, the influence of algorithms on society and the human experience, and environmental change. In 2022 she published: “Composing Interactions - An Artist’s Guide to Building Expressive Interactive Systems” with V2_ in Rotterdam. She is a member of iii and Grond.

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Also presenting on Thursday will be @bjarnig!!

In this talk, I reflect on the relationship between fixed structures and dynamic musical processes in my current artistic practice. Using three recent projects as points of departure, I examine how relatively stable code frameworks interact with the evolving and contingent nature of sound production and compositional decision-making. I explore how these frameworks operate not simply as technical tools but as environments that both constrain and enable musical activity. The presentation focuses on how compositional ideas emerge through interaction with these systems, where musical outcomes are shaped by iterative processes, feedback loops, and acts of listening.

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Bjarni Gunnarsson is a composer and programmer interested in process-based sound, digital synthesis, and algorithmic composition. His work explores how sound and software interact, examining the influence of algorithms on musical behaviour and the contact points between system building and composition. He creates works that foreground behaviours, actions, and evolving or unstable forms, where structure emerges through interaction rather than prescription. His recent research focuses on persistent synthetic environments, live coding, digital interrupts, database systems, and machine listening for sound synthesis. Bjarni teaches at the Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.

https://soundcloud.com/bjarni

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See you at the meetup in just over 30 minutes!

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I’m looking very much forward to hear from @julian on Wednesday - I hope you are too!

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A walkabout between music informatics and epistemic media.

Julian Rohrhuber works in an interdisciplinary field that combines philosophy, informatics, anthropology and art. Together with his students in Düsseldorf, he develops art as a form of theory as well as teaching as a mode of research. As a member of the community, Julian (telephon) has followed the development of SuperCollider for a long time, contributing both to its formal and improvisational character.

I have always found sound programming interesting as a way to learn by experiment, to collaborate and play with people in different disciplines. Helping out in the SuperCollider project has meant to contribute and develop ideas that come from my mixed background. For this presentation, I would like to focus on the early inspirations that led to the live coding movement in computer music and discuss what role they play in our work in the research in music informatics and epistemic media. Also, I would like to discuss conceptual decisions in the development of SuperCollider. If the audience is interested, we can touch upon some related topics covered in projects and publications.

Websites:

some relevant publications:

Works:

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