“Not knowing is not only to be overcome, but sought, explored and savored; where failure, boredom, frustration and getting lost are constructively deployed.”

I feel Like this quote is something I one tries to understand on a deeper level to be able to live code. The idea of knowing for science and not knowing for art is sometimes bigger than just a know-how and a no-how, like a balance between both is also at some level required. The author talked in the reading about the idea of knowing how something works is not exactly required for creating in a live coding environment; that is is more about the exploration, the errors, the questions raised and the answers (or possibly answers?) found. It is about feeling the music in some way, feeling the visuals and trying to find a common ground for which you can go forward.

However, as the authors explained,

“Both ancient weaving and live coding involve a live, embodied process of decision-making and knowledge activation that operates in excess of or between the lines of conventional notational systems.”

the know how is also always in a way required. The idea that some sort of knowledge is required, but experienced level knowledge is not. That by live coding you need to keep the next part of the carpet unknown to keep going, yet you base what is to come on what was, and what is to come is what bases layers and layers of code to reach the end of the carpet. That the knowledge of how to code, how to weave, at a basic level, needs to be acquired before live coding, that some idea of color and music needs to be there. But that is the idea, that knowledge of some is all that is needed for one to have the ability to live code. It is more a talent of how to build layers over one another, the unpredictability and the block of advanced scientific knowledge that is needed.

Forcing yourself out side the box of science and thinking else where. That is what live coding needs, that is what comes from pushing yourself, exploring something new and seeing the things you know from the things you do not know to find an area where art shines.