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b"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/"