From Scratch Live Coding From Scratch
Eval
I start by scratching sound into the microphone and then manipulating it with code (using TidalCycles). Layer by layer, more sounds are scratched, combined, and transformed, all unfolding improvisationally on the fly.
Semi-serious in spirit, the piece starts with a blank editor and gradually grows into a full audiovisual performance. It plays with the idea of "from scratch"—both beginning from nothing and the literal act of scratching to create sound.
In this layered wordplay, "from scratch" becomes less a rule and more a way of noticing how improvisation, sound, and code take shape in real time. As gestures, patterns, and textures build up, the piece shows how things can drift into place on their own—how meaning appears unexpectedly, how small actions grow into structure, and how the performance slowly finds its own direction simply through the act of making.
Sound Engineer
Sippapas Thienwiwat
Thanapat Ogaslert
Special thanks
Renick Bell
SYNAP
VinA/V #02: Para-Cartography
WrappedByte (TH) (WrappedByte) x Jo Ngo (VIE) (Jo Ngo) presents "From Scratch: Wandering in the Street."
as a part of the "From Scratch Live Coding From Scratch" series.
The performance begins from a blank editor screen and gradually builds into a full audiovisual piece. It plays on the phrase "from scratch," meaning to start from nothing, to scratch objects into existence, and to DJ scratch sounds live. Like wandering a street at night, the audience suddenly notices objects emerging from the dark. Each is created through code and sound, appearing both visually and sonically. The work explores improvisation and the creative process, showing how meaning and atmosphere can develop unexpectedly from silence and emptiness, one scratch at a time.
This time I used different sandpapers to scratch on the brick and the chair. I also used my nail to scratch on the mic and the chair as well.
1P.S. Last pic marks the end of the tour, as I would need new sandpaper for the next show
Special thanks
lebactan
Jo Ngo
Renick Bell
Vietnam Media Lab
RMIT Vietnam