Who hasn’t wondered, while dancing at a techno session, what the artist hiding behind the computer screen is really doing? Checking emails or filtering frequencies? Show us your screen is the phrase coined by the live coding collective Top Lap to highlight that in live coding performances, the artist’s screen is projected for the audience to see, much like watching a guitarist solo, revealing the algorithms the live coder writes in real time. These are, therefore, digital craft shows loaded with a huge dose of honesty and transparency.

Based on this premise, musician Eloi Isern aka Eloi el Bon Noi and visual artist Citlali Hernández aka Turbulente, both regular live coders in the Barcelona scene, present an audiovisual show based on the creative use of programming code.

In Show us your screen, the code generates image and sound, but also, like in a game of infinite meanings, Turbulente takes her partner’s projected code and uses it as a canvas for her work. This performance is code manipulating code. Sound creating visual choreographies, and overlapping screens layering code. Code, code, code.

Show us your screen offers an electronic session with strong doses of IDM and glitch, with a prominent role for improvisation and audio-reactive visuals. In this way, the music stimulates the image, which responds synchronously, creating a dialogue between the two artists.