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Paola Torres Núñez del Prado, Dave Griffiths and myself Alex McLean have been talking about making an tangible algorithmic pattern interface inspired by Andean Khipu for some time, including during her residency visit to Sheffield. Dave has been making some progress towards a workshop exploring the use of these tactile pendants to describe robot movements…

Live coding is a creative practice centering on live interaction via programming languages, often in performance in music, choreography, video animation or other time-based artform. Live coding has been around for over two decades now, and I (Alex) have had a great time being involved from the early days, including attending the first live coding/live…

It’s been masses of fun collaborating with Luke Iannini over the past year or so, including presenting some work-in-progress in our talk on “Making Space for Algorithmic Alphabets” at the Undone Computer Science conference last month. It was good to have a deadline for our pretty speculative explorations, and share some work-in-progress. We did really…

After a long journey, the journal article “Live Notation for Patterns of Movement” is published! This shares thinking behind the algorithmic choreography collaboration between Kate Sicchio and myself Alex McLean, where they have been exploring algorithmic patterns of movement in robots and humans (including themselves). The article explores false assumptions in generative arts, before exploring…

Back in the summer of ’22, Dave Griffiths, Lizzie Wilson, Iván Paz and myself Alex McLean ran a workshop introducing tablet weaving to live coders (musicians who manipulate algorithms to make their music or other performing artform), to introduce them to ways of thinking about the algorithmic patterns they work with from the standpoint of…

The draft schedule and free signup for the Algorithmic Pattern Salon is now live! The salon is an international effort by Laura Devendorf, Vernelle Noel, Iván Paz, Anuradha Reddy, Elizabeth Wilson and myself Alex McLean, with the help of many folks who helped review all the submissions. We’ve put together a schedule of dozens of…

Algorithmic Patterns in Creative Arts, Craft and Code Salon dates: 23/24th November 2023Deadline for submissions: 22nd September 2023https://alpaca.pubpub.org/2023 We are happy to announce the open call for contributions for the first Algorithmic Pattern Salon, taking place online (with potential local gatherings) 23/24th November. The salon will be interdisciplinary and open access. For full details of…

I’ve been working on the TidalCycles live coding environment well over a decade now, and still am (exciting rewrite in the works!). It’s designed for live coding music with code, based on ideas of patterns inspired by systems like the Bol Processor. By now it has a vibrant, worldwide community of practitioners and contributors behind…

The Summer of Haskell is a programme funded via the Haskell Foundation, supporting students and other newcomers with a stipend and mentorship to make their first open source contributions to the Haskell ecosystem. Haskell is a pure functional programming language, which I have enjoyed working with for many years, including making the TidalCycles language for…

It’s been a privilege to be collaborating as part of the Patterns In Between Intelligences project with fellow live coder Lizzie Wilson, e-textile designer Mika Satomi, and choreographers/performers Deva Schubert and Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez. The following video shows an early prototype and describes the motivation behind the work. The funding source via the LINK…