Exploring Latency, Jitter, and Packet Loss as Audiovisual Aesthetics in a Gesture-Enabled Browser-Based Networked Live Coding Platform
Performers and audiences have frequently viewed the inherent technical limitations involved in remote audiovisual collaboration, especially over long distances, as obstacles to this form of live performance.
In this talk, I will demonstrate how _Trussal_ (a name derived from the combination of the words "truss" and "algorave"), an emerging in-browser networked live coding platform, can leverage network conditions into a multimedia performance genre of their own.
We will explore the integration of _Jitsi_, _MediaPipe_, _Strudel_, _Hydra_, _Web Audio API_, and _O2lite_ as vehicles in the creation of a live performance environment whereby collaborators have the opportunity to implement dynamic and cyclic global metapatterns dictating audio and video event onsets, modulate audiovisual effects according to network metrics, and artificially modulate network characteristics from their predicted baseline in a distributed environment.
Furthermore, we will also see how the integration of gesture-based live coding opens up possibilities not only for playing an instrument while coding, thereby expanding the range of the live coding genre to include a much wider range of live sound pairings, but paving the way for novel forms of performance interactivity.
Quargs Greene
Founder
Los Angeles Projector Swarm
Quargs Greene is an American composer, violist, software engineer, and multimedia artist based in Los Angeles, working at the intersection of live coding, electronic neoclassical musical aesthetics, networked audiovisual performance, and human-computer interaction. After earning an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Boston University in the Fall of 2025, they scored the short film, "Beyond the Box", which is about people with disabilities in the entertainment industry, using only Strudel, viola samples, and their CSV input-driven multi-notch filter JUCE plugin called "Eglof", recorded into a DAW. They currently organize the Los Angeles Projector Swarm, a TOPLAP node aimed at furthering the live coding community in Los Angeles. Prior to this, they contributed 20 original songs to Paramount Global's music library, co-composed the North American Sony theatrical release "Clika", and toured as co-founder and violist of the band, Love Ghost throughout Japan, Ireland, and Ecuador.