Live Coding on Orca, the Geopolitics of the English Language and the Limits of Creative Semantic Anchoring: A Preliminary Hypothesis

Marcello Messina (1, 2, 3) , Luzilei Aliel (4, 2) , Carlos Mario Gómez Mejía (2) , Marcos Célio Filho (3, 2) , Marcos Thadeu Soares de Melo (1, 2)

1 UFAC - Universidade Federal do Acre
2 NAP - Núcleo Amazônico de Pesquisa Musical - Amazon Center for Music Research
3 UFPB - Universidade Federal da Paraiba / Federal University of Paraiba
4 USP - Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo

Orca is a live coding environment based on one-letter alphanumeric operators, different from the English-based commands of other coding or patching tools. Our main hypothesis is that the one-letter operators that regulate Orca's functioning might make it a much more accessible environment, especially for those users that may benefit from an alternative to the dominant English language. In this preliminary paper, we also present our hypothesis in terms of Orca's interactions and contradictions vis-à-vis Creative Semantic Anchoring (ASC).

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences; Histoire; Etudes sur le genre; Littératures; Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène; Linguistique

Marcello Messina, Luzilei Aliel, Carlos Mario Gómez Mejía, Marcos Célio Filho, Marcos Thadeu Soares de Melo. Live Coding on Orca, the Geopolitics of the English Language and the Limits of Creative Semantic Anchoring: A Preliminary Hypothesis. Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Ubiquitous Music (UbiMus 2021), Sep 2021, Matosinhos, Portugal. pp.57-61. ⟨hal-03368436⟩