Beginner friendly introduction to live coding with Strudel and Hydra
from 10:00 to 12:00
In this workshop designed for beginners, participants are encouraged to take their first steps with live-coding tools. We’ll explore the basics of Strudel and Hydra, focusing on their unique conception of time and how seemingly simple rules can be used to create complexity. Participants do not need any prior knowledge of music or programming, though procedural thinking—such as that developed through cooking or knitting—is an advantage.
Map(h)
map(h) is a collective formed by Sule Suarez (Colombia) and Gorka Egino (Basque Country), based in Linz, Austria. Their artistic practice is centered in the field of media art and live coding.
They have performed internationally in festivals like Bogotrax 2026 (Colombia) and MFRU / International Festival of Computer Arts 31 (2025, Slovenia). Their work "What remains?", a textile sound installation in the topic of memory and time, was presented in Venus Flytrap in November 2025.
They have also founded the TOPLAP Linz collective to organise workshops and concerts to promote live coding. Notable past events include TOPLAB #1: Inhabiting code (January 2026), a weekend-long workshop on Strudel and Hydra with a final collective jam with the participants, Overflow (November 2025), and ALGORAVE: Wireless a benefit gut geschlafen (May 2025), a satellite event to the International Conference of Live Coding, co-organised with servus.at.