some recent livecoding
There was a 24-hour live code stream for Palestine starting this past Friday. I ended up performing in two 15-minute slots, one Friday night and one randomly on Saturday morning.
The Friday one was my first real-ish live coding session in front of more than a handful of people, so I was pretty nervous. I had a lot of adrenaline and made some big mistakes (probably no one will care except me) but it felt really great. It was my first time performing music in front of other people at all since I was playing the saxophone in 8th grade:
I thought that would be it, but I happened to notice that there was an open slot on Saturday morning, so I jumped on that and performed again. I felt a lot more relaxed for this one:
I hope to do more of this! There's not much of a scene I know of in Western MA but I guess we'll see.
If you're reading this and are up for it, please consider doing something to support the Palestinian people, whether that's donating money, engaging with the BDS movement, or even just raising awareness. The violence still hasn't stopped in Gaza, and things weren't great before October 7th anyway.