code.drift collective

loud stage, soft hearts, live code 💫 grateful for this glitchy, generous community --> @codedrift.collective not a band, not a crew, but an expanding/amorphous blob of wanderers 💗

Three cities. Five livecoding systems. One shared landscape. Everything written in real time. Jaipur, Mumbai, Delhi - drifting through memory, rhythm, and chaos. For us, creative coding isn’t about control. It’s about listening, and letting a place speak back. Thank you @withfestival_anant & @anant_national_university for the stage. With love, code.drift 💻🎶🌆

21.02.2026 most fun and laughs at setup always #codedriftcollective @withfestival_anant

@codedrift.collective lands on stage at the @withfestival_anant in #Ahmedabad with an immersive livecoded drift through some of our favourite cities as audio-visual sets. Livecoding is as much about the process as the performance, and code.drift is as much about lived experience as it is about art. Performing this time from the collective are @m.angesh #sushma @beatnyk @nanditi.k @abhishekkapahi Song Credits: Monsoon Mewari by @nanditi.k #codedriftcollective #livecoding #avperformance liveatthefest Reposted from @withfestival_anant

First playtest of "code.drift: the game" at Studio345 @sandboxcollective with @shiva__pathak and her wonderful collaborators on project Mori Daatidha Veera and many new friends in Bangalore! What a joyful day drifting through Cooke Town guided by the crazy ways of the game and making playful code potions with sounds and sights of the neighborhood 🧙🏻‍♀️✨ Thank you all for making a Monday feel like Sunday and sharing space, time, and enthusiasm with the code.drift collective! Quoting the Situationists - "We demand games with great seriousness". Here's to more such game days and drifts 🎉👯‍♀️ Wonder what this is? We turned code.drift into a game - making creative coding playful and shared. It opens new ways of observing our surroundings and collecting stories and impressions through whacky cards and gameplays. Learning code, music, visual art also happens naturally through play and shared explorations. [friends > wanderings > code > creation]

#HowToTalkToSounds Join us for another session of code.yatra’s “How to”. This time with the inimitable @eardrummerman 🎉 aka Manaswi The “How to” series is a space for conversations and exchanges with live coding practitioners from across the world. Artists will talk about their ideas, their tools, processes, and what makes live coding live coding for them! 📍Where: Online (YT livestream) 📅 When: Friday, July 25 | 6 PM IST 📝 Register: Link in bio — eardrummerman aka Manaswi Mishra is a Lego Pappert fellow, PhD student in the Opera of the Future research group, MIT Media Lab. His research explores strategies and frameworks for a new creative age of composing, performing and learning music using A.I. centered around bespoke human and cultural intent. Manaswi’s research on creating novel A.I. Lutherie can be seen in the development and performance of Operas like VALIS (2023), FLOW Symphony (2024, premiered in Seoul Arts Center) and exhibitions across the world (Kirkland Gallery at Harvard, IFA Stuttgart ‘24, Burning Man ‘23, Boston tech poetics, Algorave India, Biennale Ljubljana). His work on AI music performance and copyright law has been published and exhibited in the MIT Press, Harvard Tech Review, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Conferences of Computational Creativity, ISEA Brisbane, CVPR 2024, Copyright Society 2023, Bloomberg Law etc. He also holds an MS in Media Arts and Sciences (MIT), MS in music technology (UPF, Barcelona) and a BTech (IITM, India). He is the founding instigator of the Music Tech Community in India organizing curricula, workshops, hackathons, conferences and community events across India. — code.yatra—a travelling creative coding collaborative project under the Godrej Design Lab Fellowship. Code.yatra is a year long project that offers simple formats for building skill and confidence around emerging technologies and creative processes. This includes capacity building, masterclasses, performance making, and so much more. code.drift and code.yatra’s deep practice of situatedness within Indian cityscapes and emerging technology allow for a paradigm shift to challenge dominant narratives of who can create with technology (and how)!

#HowToHY5 Join us for our first session in code.yatra’s “How to” with the brilliant Ted Davis. The “How to” series is a space for conversations and exchanges with live coding practitioners from across the world. Artists will talk about their ideas, their tools, and what makes live coding live coding for them! 📍Where: Online (YT livestream) 📅 When: Monday, April 28 | 4 PM IST 📝 Register: Link in bio — Ted Davis is a media artist / designer / educator originally from the United States and based in Basel, Switzerland. Since 2010 he teaches interaction design and coordinates the UIC/HGK International Master of Design program within the Visual Communication Institute, The Basel School of Design HGK FHNW. His work and teachings explore the volatility of digital media through glitch and reactivating older ‘new media’ through newer programming means. His open source projects (basil.js, XYscope, P5LIVE) enable designers to program within Adobe InDesign, render vector graphics on vector displays, and collaboratively create live coded visuals. With international exhibits, lectures and workshops, he empowers students to take hold of the computer’s ability to design possibilities beyond that of the hand or mouse. — code.yatra—a travelling creative coding collaborative project under the Godrej Design Lab Fellowship. Code.yatra is a year long project that offers simple formats for building skill and confidence around emerging technologies and creative processes. This includes capacity building, masterclasses, performance making, and so much more. code.drift and code.yatra’s deep practice of situatedness within Indian cityscapes and emerging technology allow for a paradigm shift to challenge dominant narratives of who can create with technology (and how)!

#RSVP #LinkInBio | Join us for a FREE beginner-friendly workshop on code-driven zine making! ✨ What’s Happening? We’ll create zines based on an immersive listening session inspired by the sounds of Jaipur. Explore interactive code (think audio-reactive visuals, generative layouts, webcam feeds), and create unique, generative zines inspired by the sights and sounds of Jaipur. 📍 Where? SUM Jaipur 📅 When? Sunday, March 30, 2025 | 4–7 PM 🎟️ Who? Open to all! No coding or design experience needed.

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