Ixi lang is a programming language for live coding musical expression.

Mark Smith, of techno-duo Garland writes about the language: "By entering the name of a sound, drawing your own bars and typing notes with numbers, you can make simple beats and melodies almost immediately.

Whatever simple information you entered beforehand becomes hugely pliable – and you can do all this to your own uploaded bank of samples.

Given that just about anyone can get up and running with a few minutes, those who are willing to put their time into live coding software like ixi lang can reach highly intuitive and fluid levels of improvised composition".

[4] Ixi lang is used internationally, for example by members of the Quase-Linema Lab[5] collective in Brazil, Belisha Beacon, Section 9 and Deerful in the UK,[6] or by the Paris-based Sougata Bhattacharya.