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Would you like to learn about a novel way to make music that's available to you right now, completely free, improvisational, and insanely powerful? Today we meet Alex McLean and discuss the magic of Algorave - aka: making improvised music onstage by writing and editing small lines of code.\n\nIt\u2019s an amazing art form and Alex is the person who coined the term \u2018Algorave\u2019, and created TidalCycles, a free program for live coding, and is a great advocate for the art form.\n\nLinks below to watch performances, watch Alex\u2019s TED talk, get access to TidalCycles and more.\n\nLISTEN OTHER WAYS\n\u25b6\ufe0e YouTube: https://youtu.be/NUgJgCvX4Y4\n\n THANKS TO SPONSORS:\n\u25b6\ufe0e http://signalsounds.com\n\u25b6\ufe0e https://www.thonk.co.uk/shop/byom/ (this is the kit I mention in the ad)\n\n SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON: \n\u25b6\ufe0e https://www.patreon.com/mylarmelodies \n\n INTRO TO LIVECODING\n\u25b6\ufe0e Here's a TED talk Alex did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAGjTYa95HM \n\u25b6\ufe0e Here's a nice little Resident Advisor film about Algoravin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2EZqikCIfY\n\u25b6\ufe0e Here's a performance Alex did which I reference in the conversation, I think it's absolutely wicked and a great example of the tools being used to sensational effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vomnc9R-7mw\n\u25b6\ufe0e Here's ORCA, which we touch on: https://100r.co/site/orca.html\n\u25b6\ufe0e Here's a good intro vid to ORCA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaI_TuISSJE\n\n ALEX'S LINKS\nHere's an uber useful list of links that Alex provided for me to share with you, if you want to learn how to livecode, try it immediately in your browser, or find a community meetup.\n\u25b6\ufe0e Introduction to live coding music and visuals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QY2x6aZzqc\n\u25b6\ufe0e TidalCycles https://tidalcycles.org/\n\u25b6\ufe0e Try Strudel right now: https://strudel.cc/ (it's TidalCycles running in a browser without any need for installation)\n\u25b6\ufe0e Strudel Demo by Alex: https://strudel.cc/?FRyhM9b5iLDm\n\u25b6\ufe0e TOPLAP - the home of live coding https://blog.toplap.org/\n\u25b6\ufe0e List of local live coding communities https://blog.toplap.org/nodes/\n\u25b6\ufe0e Pattern Club Sheffield - https://patternclub.org/sheffield/\n\u25b6\ufe0e 'Eulerroom' channel with loads of archived live coding streams: https://www.youtube.com/eulerroom\n\u25b6\ufe0e Alex's algorithmic pattern project https://algorithmicpattern.org/\n\u25b6\ufe0e Comprehensive list of live coding links https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding\n\u25b6\ufe0e Alex's blog https://slab.org/\n\u25b6\ufe0e The nonprofit Alex works as part of https://thentrythis.org/