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Live Coding Workshop w/ Norah Lorway

Live Coding Workshop w/ Norah Lorway
October18, 2025, 12–2 pm
PAVED Arts, 424 20th St. W. Saskatoon

Co-presented by Sounds Like: An Audio Festival and PAVED Arts
A live coding workshop using Supercollider, Sonic Pi, and also Narah Lorway’s own programming language, Scorch (https://www.scorch.live/).
Materials Needed
Please bring your own laptop to participate in this workshop.
Registration
Fill out the form through the link below to register for this workshop.
This workshop is free for Sounds Like Audio Festival pass holders, or PAVED Arts Members. $30 without a pass or membership. Payment may be made at PAVED Arts during the workshop. Purchase/renew your membership here.
Registration Form

Artist Bio

Dr. Norah Lorway is a composer, programmer, and professor researching artificial intelligence and its use with both sound and health care. Since completing a PhD at the University of Birmingham, Norah has been working at universities in Canada and the UK since 2010. She is an active performer of live coding algorave music and co-creator of Scorch, a domain-specific programming language for music, through her music technology company Beesting Labs.
Norah co-composed the soundtrack for ‘Anthropocene: The Human Epoch’ which premiered at TIFF in 2018 and was nominated for a Cinema Eye Honors Award for best film score. Sundance Institute listed her as one of “18 Women Composers You Should Know” and MixMag described her as being a pioneer in the field of live coding. Norah is a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Robert Fleming Award for outstanding composers in Canada. Established in 2012, she operates the net-label Xylem Records for forward-thinking electronic music. She is currently based in Montreal where she teaches Electroacoustic Music Studies at Concordia University. https://linktr.ee/norahlorway
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