Workshop Swarm: Live Coding Music [from p2p networks]

​Chaos becomes order.

​Order becomes noise.

​Code your own sound on the Swarm.

​Welcome to a collective live coding experiment based on the acclaimed art performance, The Plural Monolith. This workshop merges decentralized peer-to-peer storage with real-time music creation, probing the ultimate Web3 contradiction: how do we coordinate collectively without surrendering our individual sovereignty?

​Join us to learn how to code music live using a decentralized soundbank built entirely on Swarm. Whether you want to contribute audio fragments or sit at the terminal and forge the track yourself, this session will turn your code into rhythms, commands, and choruses.

​What You Will Learn: During this hands-on session, we will break down the tech stack behind The Plural Monolith and teach you how to live code music:

• ​Decentralized Live Coding: Learn how to use our custom fork of Strudel.cc, completely statically built and hosted on Swarm, to write lines of code that trigger sounds and interrupt patterns in real-time.

• ​The Shared Soundbank: Discover how audiences can instantly drop samples, field recordings, or voice fragments (like the words signal, ghost, glitch, or consensus) directly into a Swarm soundbank via a browser—with no wallet and no installation required. https://livecoding.eth.limo/

• ​Web3 Music Architecture: Understand the backend magic—how off-chain indexers and minimal smart contracts on the Gnosis Chain rebuild sample lists and publish them to Swarm feeds.

• ​The Community Hub: Explore how decentralized tracks can be published to a Swarm-based board for discussion, playback, editing, and remixing.

​Who Should Attend? Musicians, developers, privacy advocates, and curious minds attending the Web3 summits. Whether you want to write the code that generates the music or simply want to learn how decentralized art projects function under the hood, there is a place for you at the terminal.

​What to Bring:

• ​Your Laptop: To sit at the terminal, access the community hub, and write live code.

• ​Your Voice or Sounds: Come prepared to record short .wav fragments or speak random words to contribute to the collective soundbank.

​This workshop will be lead by DJ, Artist and founder of subcult - Alaska.

​Workshop Registration

​This workshop is part of BREW: Privacy Matters and takes place during the BREW conference on 20 June 2026 in Berlin.

​To get the most out of the session, we strongly recommend bringing a laptop, as many workshops include practical demonstrations and hands-on exercises.

​Please only register if you genuinely intend to attend as space is limited