Hello I'm Alex, and am interested in live coding music and heritage algorithms. I'm a non-academic research fellow at a small non-profit Then Try This, with a project exploring "algorithmic patterns" in a range of collaborations. I'm currently interested in fringe possibilities of hand drawn programming environments, and also how continuous and discrete patterns can be represented and combined together. I've been here before but struggle a bit with slack and tech culture, lets see if I can last this time 🙂

Welcome Alex 😉

Ohh! Can you talk a bit about hand drawn programming environments?

Not much to say yet really! I think it's a bit of a contradiction of terms but that makes it interesting.

Hey -- big fan of your work and your thinking.

Aw thanks @brett g porter!

@brett g porter I would be interested in urls / your take on on @Alex McLean’s work…

1. As a composer/computer scientist, the pattern language (literally a language for working with musical patterns, not a Christopher Alexander thing) in tidalcycles is really interesting; a way of thinking about time and music that are super-different than how I think about things natively, and it's good to stretch. In-browser version "strudel" at strudel.tidalcycles.org 2. There are a few overview chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music with insight into working with computers as collaborators, etc. 3. Similarly, some content in the MIT Press book on [Live Coding](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544818/live-coding/) 4. A ton of interesting live coding music/algorave content on the toplap.org site

Thanks @brett g porter! fwiw I've put my publications on zotero here: https://www.zotero.org/yaxu/ and links to various interviews and things here: https://slab.org/interviews-etc/

I cite the Live Coding book in conversation frequently : -)