In January Alex, Paola Torres Núñez del Prado and Dave were invited by our long term collaborator and friend Julian Rohrhuber to visit the Institute for Music and Media (IMM) in Düsseldorf to expand on our previous work together with Andean Khipu.The t…

I was happy to meet linguist Wataru Uegaki at a research ‘crucible’ event connected with my fellowship (we are both … More

I've been playing with a weaving pattern over the last few months, it's based on one of the oldest pieces of fabric found, in Hallstatt in Austria. The papers and publications on it are largely pay-walled and quite tricky to get hold of, but …

One of the goals of the Algorithmic Pattern project is to apply algorithmic knowledge in craft to new scientific or mathematical purposes. One of the people we met when we were working with Geraldine Jones during her residency on the project was Charlo…

The Alpaca 2025 festival and conference on algorithmic patterns in the creative arts is happening this September 2025. Please see … More

The Algorithmic Pattern 2025 call for talks has been open for a while, and the call is now open for … More

We’re excited to pre-announce the first edition of a conference/festival Algorithmic Pattern 2025. It will take place in September 2025, … More

Konnakol is a South Indian, Carnatic musical practice involving the recitation of syllables while clapping the underlying tala. Here is … More

I’m just back from a productive week working with Mika Satomi and Lizzie Wilson on a mini project ‘Modulating Time’ … More

Paola Torres Núñez del Prado, Dave Griffiths and myself Alex McLean have been talking about making an tangible algorithmic pattern … More