Musical Live Coding in Relation to Interactivity Variations

This article explores the similarities and differences between live coding traditional music performances. The focus is on how bodily movements are expressed whether pre-reflective processes may be activated during a performance. While reports from practitioners vary percepts of embodiment, community missing theoretical background that reflects practice. Understanding in can benefit performance practices tool development. As coder, I reflect personal experiences explore what call ‘interactivity variations’, term to denote different gestural manners interactions observe patterns embodiment among various coders who use diverse systems online videos. Out 11 examples systems, two cases demonstrate interactivity variations activate while another exploits direct manipulation. present some implications for movement discuss descriptive prescriptive notation important potentially influence our sensorimotor network. contributes first account theory performances, reflecting practice embodied cognition by presenting an aesthetic analysis video examples.