Stokesflow is a duo formed by Giuseppe Torre and Jürgen Simpson exploring live-coding paradigms across computer and hybrid synthesis performance contexts. The contrasting nature of each performer’s process results in a distinctive interplay of algorithm and voltage. Stokesflow takes its name from a type of fluid flow named after Irish mathematician/physicist George Stokes. Stokesflow’s performances unfold through a hybrid interface of live-coded scripts, patch cables, and physical controls. The result is an evolving soundscape where machine logic and human intuition converge in real time.
In this iteration, the flow of events extends serially from ORCA (a two-dimensional live coding language used for sequencing) feeding a modular system which serves as a further layer of generative manipulation and the resulting sound synthesis. The modular system is not simply reactive but integrated into the compositional process. It is shaped and animated by ORCA’s algorithmic patterns, which generate control voltage signals that are further manipulated by a monome Teletype, a scriptable module that enables complex interactions via CV/i2c communication and two Orthogonal Devices ER-301 Sound Computers. Together these each act as programmable logic layers, allowing for generative structures, conditional behaviors, and real-time manipulation and resulting in a network of code and circuitry.