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British musician and researcher (born 1975)
Alex McLean (born 1975) is a British musician and researcher. He is notable for his key role in developing
live coding as a musical practice,
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13] [
excessive citations ] including for creating
TidalCycles , a live-coding environment
[14] that allows programmer musicians to code simply and quickly,
[10] and for coining the term
Algorave with
Nick Collins .
[9]
He is an active and influential member of the
live coding community; he is a co-founder of TOPLAP
[15] and joint leader of the Live Coding Research Network.
[16]
Alex is co-founder of the Chordpunch record label
[17]
McLean is also known for his work in
software art , winning the
Transmediale award for software art in 2002 for forkbomb.pl ,
[18] a short Perl script which creates a unique image from an operating system under heavy load,
[19]
[20]
[21] and co-founding the runme.org software art repository with
Olga Goriunova ,
Amy Alexander and
Alexei Shulgin in 2003, which received an honorary mention in the Prix
Ars Electronica netvision category in 2004.
Alex McLean performs as a solo artist under the moniker Yaxu and is also a member of the live coding bands
Slub
[22] and
Canute . He has also collaborated with
Kate Sicchio in combining live coding and live choreography.
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During 2016, McLean was sound artist in residence at the
Open Data Institute , as part of the
Sound and Music embedded programme.
[24]
Discography
EPs
Peak Cut (Computer Club; 30 March 2015)
[25]
Broken (Chordpunch; 2011)
[26]
References
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"Interview with Alex McLean" . Retrieved 7 January 2024 .
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"Then Try This - Alex McLean" . Retrieved 7 January 2024 .
^ Muggs, Joe.
"Algoraving: Dancing to Live Coding" . Red Bull Music Academy . Retrieved 26 January 2016 .
^ Perry, Grayson.
"Is the world wide web art's final frontier?" . The Times . Retrieved 26 January 2016 .
^ Welleman, Vincent (19 May 2010).
"SLUB-trio Muziek moet het visuele volgen, niet omgekeerd" . Kwadratuur . Retrieved 26 January 2016 .
^ Temkin, Daniel.
"Interview with Alex McLean" . Retrieved 26 January 2016 .
^ Fortune, Stephen (14 May 2013).
"What on earth is livecoding?" . Dazed Digital .
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"Algorave: dansen op software" . NOS . 29 November 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2016 .
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a
b Cheshire, Tom (29 August 2013).
"Hacking meets clubbing with the 'algorave' " . Wired . Retrieved 29 August 2013 .
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a
b Bell, Sarah.
"Live Coding Brings Programming to Life – an interview with Alex McLean" . British Science Association . Archived from
the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2015 .
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"Hacking + Clubbing = Algoraves!" . ARTE . Archived from
the original on 3 February 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2015 .
^ Andrews, Robert.
"Real DJs Code Live" . Wired . Retrieved 26 January 2016 .
^ Collins, N.; McLean, A.; Rohrhuber, J. & Ward, A. (2004). "Live coding in laptop performance". Organised Sound . Cambridge University Press (3): 321–330.
doi :
10.1017/S135577180300030X .
S2CID
56413136 .
^ McLean, Alex.
"Tidal – Pattern Language for Live Coding of Music" . Sound and Music Computing . Archived from
the original on 15 October 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2015 .
^
"Toplap Credits" . Sound and Music Computing . Archived from
the original on 15 October 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2015 .
^
"International Conference on Live Coding - Home" . Iclc.toplap.org . Retrieved 8 August 2020 .
^
"Hacking + Clubbing = Algoraves!" . Archived from
the original on 3 February 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2015 .
^ Gere, Charlie (7 August 2012).
Community Without Community in Digital Culture . Palgrave Macmillan.
ISBN
9781137026675 .
^ Mackenzie, Adrian (1 January 2006).
Cutting Code: Software and Sociality . Peter Lang.
ISBN
9780820478234 .
^ Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna; Cashen, Trish; Gardiner, Hazel (1 January 2007).
Futures Past: Thirty Years of Arts Computing . Intellect Books.
ISBN
9781841501680 .
^ Matthews, Graham; Goodman, Sam (31 May 2013).
Violence and the Limits of Representation . Palgrave Macmillan.
ISBN
9781137296917 .
^ Armitage, Tom.
"Making music with live computer code" . Wired UK . Retrieved 9 November 2015 .
^ Squires, Paul.
"In conversation with Kate Sicchio and Alex McLean" . Archived from
the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2015 .
^
"Alex McLean chosen as ODI's sound artist in residence" . Soundandmusic.org . Retrieved 26 January 2016 .
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"Peak Cut, by Yaxu" . Computerclub.bandcamp.com . Retrieved 8 August 2020 .
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"Broken release" . Chordpunch.com . Retrieved 8 August 2020 .
External links
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