With minimal expertise, if you’ve tried your hand at piecing together a short video, creating an audio track for a project, or using image-editing software for a desired output, you’d know that useful as they are, tech softwares could be terribly cumbersome, keeping you occupied for hours for a simple 30-second piece. If you’re a programmer, however, things would be different, as creative technologist Abhinay Khoparzi makes evident while giving us a glimpse of his live-coding session ahead of his May 12 performance in the city.

Having spent a fair part of his career creating programs that automated tasks to meet his client’s demands, the filmmaker found in the creative art, a means to blend his love for music and automation. “At the event, I will focus on [discussing] tools that use electronic music, but can expand to other forms as well. Most of the Bollywood music today is electronic too. Through these custom-designed [programs], I will generate notes using code. The user interface is not a point and click one, like it would be for traditional softwares. You’ll see me bring about change by simply tweaking the code,” he says.