Author Archives: alex

Algorave Assembly
There’s been a flurry of algorave activity lately, time for an Algorave Assembly, 27th April 2018 in School of Music, University of Leeds. By day there’ll be free talks on livecoding visuals from Coral Manton, pattern by me (Alex Mclean),

Algorave Assembly
There’s been a flurry of algorave activity lately, time for an Algorave Assembly, 27th April 2018 in School of Music, University of Leeds. By day there’ll be free talks on livecoding visuals from Coral Manton, pattern by me (Alex Mclean),

AlgoMech 2017
Great things coming to Sheffield 9-12, Nov 2017! There will of course be an Algorave, with a packed line-up of top live-coders mixed some mechanical dance music as well, including chiptune superhearo goto80 dueting on commodore 64s with a mechanical

AlgoMech 2017
Great things coming to Sheffield 9-12, Nov 2017! There will of course be an Algorave, with a packed line-up of top live-coders mixed some mechanical dance music as well, including chiptune superhearo goto80 dueting on commodore 64s with a mechanical

Belisha Beacon in ATTN:Magazine
Belisha Beacon aka Dorien Schampaert has a great interview in ATTN:Magazine about (among other things) her work researching the Ondes Martenot and her journey into live coding and algorave. “I think there are two things that happen when you try to

Belisha Beacon in ATTN:Magazine
Belisha Beacon aka Dorien Schampaert has a great interview in ATTN:Magazine about (among other things) her work researching the Ondes Martenot and her journey into live coding and algorave. “I think there are two things that happen when you try to

Algorave 5th birthday – 24 hour stream
Right now Algoravers around the world are joining up online to listen to each other over 24 hours, from midnight-midnight on the 17th March 2017 GMT. One performance every 30 minutes = 48 performances. You can see the line-up here, join the live stream

Algorave 5th birthday – 24 hour stream
Right now Algoravers around the world are joining up online to listen to each other over 24 hours, from midnight-midnight on the 17th March 2017 GMT. One performance every 30 minutes = 48 performances. You can see the line-up here, join the live stream

International Conference on Live Coding 2017
The 3rd International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC) will travel to Morelia in Mexico, taking place between the 4th and 8th December 2017. The website is already up in Spanish and English, and here’s the teaser: The call for proposals will go out 11th May,

International Conference on Live Coding 2017
The 3rd International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC) will travel to Morelia in Mexico, taking place between the 4th and 8th December 2017. The website is already up in Spanish and English, and here’s the teaser: The call for proposals will go out 11th May,

All things live coding: a curated list
Mauro aka lvm from Beunos Aires has made a curated list of “All Things Live Coding“, with links to dozens of high quality languages, libraries, videos, readings, and more. With the demise of the TOPLAP wiki some time ago this is very

All things live coding: a curated list
Mauro aka lvm from Beunos Aires has made a curated list of “All Things Live Coding“, with links to dozens of high quality languages, libraries, videos, readings, and more. With the demise of the TOPLAP wiki some time ago this is very

Special issue of DANCECULT on algorithmic electronic dance music
Dancecult is an independent, peer-reviewed journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). As Dancecult is open access, you can download and read its archive of writing on EDMC going back to 2009. With increasing visibility of algorithms in dance

Special issue of DANCECULT on algorithmic electronic dance music
Dancecult is an independent, peer-reviewed journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC). As Dancecult is open access, you can download and read its archive of writing on EDMC going back to 2009. With increasing visibility of algorithms in dance

Algorave in mixmag
A lovely article on mixmag.net, by Steph Kretowicz (with above illustration by Patch Keys). “In the back room of a bar in the South London suburb of New Cross, there’s a revolution happening. Or maybe it’s not so much a revolution as

Algorave in mixmag
A lovely article on mixmag.net, by Steph Kretowicz (with above illustration by Patch Keys). “In the back room of a bar in the South London suburb of New Cross, there’s a revolution happening. Or maybe it’s not so much a revolution as

ICLC is go!
The 2016 edition of International Conference on Live Coding is on, we’ve already had a day of workshops and evening of performances and well into this morning’s first paper session. You can follow along on the #iclc2016 channel on the TOPLAP slack, and/or

ICLC is go!
The 2016 edition of International Conference on Live Coding is on, we’ve already had a day of workshops and evening of performances and well into this morning’s first paper session. You can follow along on the #iclc2016 channel on the TOPLAP slack, and/or

AlgoMech festival, Sheffield, 12-19th November 2016
AlgoMech – the festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement – is coming to Sheffield from the 12th-19th November. It brings together algorithmic and mechanical approaches in the performing arts, through an unlikely programme including clog dancing, embroidery, mechanical techno, and of course

AlgoMech festival, Sheffield, 12-19th November 2016
AlgoMech – the festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement – is coming to Sheffield from the 12th-19th November. It brings together algorithmic and mechanical approaches in the performing arts, through an unlikely programme including clog dancing, embroidery, mechanical techno, and of course