Alex McLean
Alex McLean | |
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Born | 1975 (age 45–46) |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | musician |
Known for | Live coding, TidalCycles, TOPLAP, Algorave |
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, [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7][8][9][10][11] including for creating TidalCycles, a live-coding environment[12] that allows programmer musicians to code simply and quickly,[8] and for coining the term Algorave with Nick Collins.[7]
He is an active and influential member of the live coding community; he is a co-founder of TOPLAP[13] and joint leader of the Live Coding Research Network.[14] Alex is co-founder of the Chordpunch record label[15]
McLean is also known for his work in software art, winning the Transmediale award for software art in 2002 for forkbomb.pl,[16] a short Perl script which creates a unique image from an operating system under heavy load,[17][18][19] and co-founding the runme.org software art repository with , 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[20] and . He has also collaborated with Kate Sicchio in combining live coding and live choreography.[21]
During 2016, McLean was sound artist in residence at the Open Data Institute, as part of the Sound and Music embedded programme.[22]
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- ^ 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. "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. "What on earth is livecoding?". Dazed Digital.
- ^ "Algorave: dansen op software". NOS. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Cheshire, Tom (29 August 2013). "Hacking meets clubbing with the 'algorave'". Wired. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Bell, Sarah. "Live Coding Brings Programming to Life – an interview with Alex McLean". British Science Association. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
- ^ "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". 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.
- ^ "Peak Cut, by Yaxu". Computerclub.bandcamp.com. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
- ^ "Broken release". Chordpunch.com. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
External links[]
- British male musicians
- Algorave
- 1975 births
- Living people