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On November 13, Kristina Andersen will host dr. Alex McLean of Then Try This

Title: Live coding and algorithmic patterns

Abstract:

This session will begin with a talk introducing live coding as a hands-on approach to creating algorithmic music and other time-based media. Alex will relate algorithmic music to heritage algorithms - pattern-based arts and crafts such as weaving and bell-ringing that have developed since long before the invention of mechanical or electronic computers. By understanding such crafts, Alex's research hopes to find inspiration for new creative technologies that are more culturally embedded, and more open to creativity and change.

This will lead into a hands-on workshop exploring the Strudel () free/open source live coding environment for musical pattern-making which Alex has co-created. Strudel is often used in 'algoraves', where musicians write code to make music for people to dance to. We will have fun exploring how simple pattern operations can create complex results, inspired by craft practices like weaving, and geometric rhythms of South India.

This workshop will be beginner-friendly, and should be of interest for anyone with a research interest or general curiosity in pattern-making, no matter their research discipline. If you'd like to take part in the workshop, please bring a laptop (any laptop with a web browser should be fine), and also a pair of headphones if you have them.

Bio:

Alex McLean has worked across creative technology since the year 2000, including work in the live coding field which brings together both research and practice in the creative, live use of programming languages. His work in this field includes instigating and developing key free/open source live coding music software environments TidalCycles and Strudel, co-chairing a Dagstuhl seminar on live coding, co-founding the International Conferences on Live Coding and Live Interfaces, co-editing the Oxford Handbook on Algorithmic Music, and co-authoring the first monograph on live coding published by MIT Press, as well curating a number of festivals.

Alex McLean completed his PhD in Goldsmiths, University of London in 2011 with thesis Artist-Programmers and Programming Languages for the Arts. He has since held research positions in the University of Leeds and Deutsches Museum in Munich, developing research strands in human-computer interfaces in both music and textiles. He now holds a 4-7 year UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship hosted by the non-profit research organisation Then Try This, investigating Algorithmic Patterns and the development of contemporary creative technology inspired by heritage algorithms in crafts and the performing arts.

Program:

14.15 - 14.30 : Doors open

14.30 - 15.15   Lecture

15.15 - 16.45   Workshop

16.45 - 17.30   Networking & Drinks at EAISI, Neuron 1.106