Temporary Organization for the Promotion of Live Art Programming or TopLap is an international organization created to the exploration and promotion of live coding. Its web page features news, forums, exhibitions and upcoming events of the world of live coding. TopLap was created in 2004 and since it has grown across the world, creating hubs or nodes in different countries, where people can work and collaborate in live code projects and performances. Thanks to TopLap I discovered the live coding scene of Mexico and I joined the facebook group of it, I’m looking forward to exploring the live coding scene of my country.

In the page of TopLap I discovered a Barcelona based artist called Yaxu that uses Tidal Cycles for his live performances. He combines different electronic genres and experimental practices to create his improvisations. I was amazed by his performances and his ways of sequencing sound, I specially thought that his structuring in the performance was very successful. One of the hardest things of live code is the development of ideas and transitions of sections and Yaxu manages really well.