Toplap Radio

TOPLAP RADIO DATES 2025

Always on Fridays, from 19h to 20h Barcelona Time (UTC+1)

• Jan 31
• Feb 28
• Mar 28
• May 02
• May 30
• Jun 27

What is Toplap Radio?

TOPLAP Radio is an online radio program focused on the latest news and stories in the TOPLAP Barcelona community, live coding and computer music in general. Each episode talks about recent events and upcoming ones, whether organized by TOPLAP Barcelona or side projects involving members of the collective. We also talk about news fromthe live coding world, including technical, artistic and ethical aspects. And of course music produced with any kind of programmed code is played. Although the radio show is not intended to be educational, we try to explain the technical aspects and concepts in an understandable way for potential neophyte listeners. In addition, whenever someone from the international TOPLAP community comes to visit, we invite them to the program to chat and explain their projects and life experience to us. For example, Olivia Jack and Shelly Knotts, among others, have passed through the studio. Many members of the local community have also been guests on the program.

The radio show began during an artistic residency by Ramon Casamajó, a member of TOPLAP Barcelona, at the Fabra i Coats creation center, which gave him access to their online radio. The first two TOPLAP Radio programs were made there at the beginning of 2020. A short time later we were invited to produce three episodes of a program that Hangar aired, on the online community radio station https://www.dublab.es, and that led to us to having a dedicated time slot there from September 2021, with 2022-2023 being our second season of monthly broadcasts. Episodes were originally presented by Roger Pibernat (aka Loopier) and Ramon Casamajó (aka QBRNTHSS) in Catalan – reflecting thereality of a local community grounded in a very specific place with its distinct language and cultural context, while simultaneously embracing an extremely diverse, global, open-minded group of people – the radio program has become a sound diary following and celebrating the evolution of the TOPLAP Barcelona community.

An archive of the shows all the way back to 2021 can be found on the dublab website.