Author: yaxu

  • Summer of Haskell call for proposals

    Summer of Haskell call for proposals

    UPDATE – the Summer of Haskell was not selected for funding support from Google, so won’t be going ahead in that form unfortunately. There is still a chance that it will be funded a different way. In any case, I (Alex) am always happy to hear from people who have algorithmic pattern-related projects and need…

  • Algorithmic pattern online talk series

    Algorithmic pattern online talk series

    Around June 2022, we hosted six excellent speakers exploring algorithmic patterns from their own perspectives, in particular: The talks took place online, and happily are all archived and available to watch on our youtube channel.

  • Sheffield Pattern Club

    Sheffield Pattern Club

    Local live coders/pattern enthusiasts Lucy Cheesman, Ray Morrison and I have started a monthly ‘pattern club’ in Sheffield, dedicated to a different kinds of hands-on pattern making. The first two events were about live coding music, the last one in December 2022 was about Kumihimo braiding, and the next one in January 2023 will be…

  • Workshop on patterns in live coding and algorithmic music

    Workshop on patterns in live coding and algorithmic music

    Lizzie Wilson, Iván Paz and myself Alex McLean organised a fun algorithmic pattern workshop as part of the collect(_) festival, which was the final event of the Creative Europe on-the-fly project. It included a morning workshop on tablet weaving by Dave Griffiths, who introduced this fascinating, ancient craft as a computational artform. This lead into…

  • Welcome

    Welcome to the Algorithmic Pattern ‘blog! Algorithmic patterns are interesting for connecting well-established (yet still developing) cultural practices like braiding, weaving, juggling, architecture, music, etc., with burgeoning contemporary practices such as live coding and digital/generative art. The algorithmic pattern discussion forum is the main source of information, but this blog will signpost key algorithmic pattern…