The champions is a physical live coding performance: 2 boxers and a referee create, modify and destroy a Pure Data patch by - boxing.

Two boxers and a referee try to program audio software by physical interactions.
The hand movements of both players are tracked with accelerometers (4 Wii controllers) and used for creating, destroying and making new connections between sound objects in a Pure Data patch - similar to the blind date performance.
At the end of the day one will see, how it works.

The champions:

• IOhannes m zmölnig (white)
• Michael Pinter (red)
• Georg Holzmann (referee)

A very detailed description of the project in German is available here: champions at vnm09 .

Blind date is a live coding performance with PD (Pure Data) by the pd~graz collective.
It is realized with 2 computers, one for audio, one for video, and 8 players (= PD programmers).

Two people are programming on the same PD patch and after a certain time a programmer is exchanged and must continue the work on the already existing patch.
An additional referee controls the exchange of the participants and so the result of the performance.
The 2 patches (one video and one audio patch) and the video output are projected, so that the visitors can follow the process of programming.

Pd~graz - Blind Date (at ICMC'08) from Peter Bennett on Vimeo.

For more informations (photos, recordings, writings) about the performance and pd~graz see the pdf below and blind date material.