Live Coding Workshop

  • Live Coding Music with Open Source Software (Strudel) 

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    Introduction workshop + Live Coding Jam with Strudel


    Join us for an exciting workshop led by Alex McLean, co-developer of the live coding language TidalCycles and Strudel. Whether you're a complete novice or simply curious about the world of coding and music, this event offers a unique opportunity to explore creativity through sound. No prior experience is necessary, just bring your curiosity and a desire to experiment!

    Tickets are available on our Eventbrite

    In this workshop, Alex McLean will introduce the free/open-source Strudel live coding platform that he co-instigated, translating the "TidalCycles" system to the web. It allows strange, complex musical rhythms and patterns to be created and explored with simple code. The workshop will, therefore, be suitable for beginners with no experience in coding or music-making, exploring patterns by listening to and adjusting just a line or two of code. At the start of the workshop, Alex will ground their understanding of algorithmic pattern-making to other pattern-based practices, including weaving and the South Indian Carnatic practice of Konnakol.

    Participants should bring a laptop (or similar device with a web browser - as long as it can make sound with https://strudel.cc/)

    Alex McLean is a researcher based in Sheffield UK, working on “algorithmic patterns” including in music, textiles and dance. He has been working professionally in creative technology since the year 2000, including as live coding musician and software artist, crowdfunded free/open source developer, festival curator/producer, and through research fellowships. Alex created the popular free/open source live coding environment TidalCycles, and co-founded the TOPLAP live coding and Algorave movements, and the AlgoMech festival. He also co-edited the Oxford Handbook on Algorithmic Music, and co-authored Live Coding: A User's Manual, published by MIT Press. He now holds a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, hosted by nonprofit independent lab Then Try This.

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