1.56K Posts, 394 Following, 1.13K Followers · Non-academic research fellow at non-profit org @thentrythis@mastodon.thentrythis.org, working on algorithmic patterns (@alpaca@mastodon.thentrythis.org). Instigator of @tidalcycles@post.lurk.org, and co-founder of @algorave@post.lurk.org, toplap, algomech festival, etc he/him
My first experiment since I decided to never ask a computer to run an algorithm that I’m not prepared to run myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYXXF6nkPR0
If you’re on an online community, please search “elephant in the room” and share what the elephants are.
Here’s the ones from the future of coding slack:
- DCI architecture (not sure what that is)
- Haskell crypto
- Code quality
- Incoherence of ownership
- No one in UK government listens to evidence
- Functional reactive programming
- IDEs
- Browsers being crap at resizing in tiling window managers
- The elephant being the room
- Bret Victor ⌘ Read more
Open access is all good, but non-academic folks now have to pay as much as $1k to contribute a paper to an ACM conference, on top of registration cost and other expenses. Perversely, this could see academic computer scientists become even more isolated.. https://audiomostly.com/2024/call/acm-policy/ https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance ⌘ Read more
My ‘why we bleep’ conversation with Mylar Melodies is up! https://www.whywebleep.com/whywebleep/2024/algorave ⌘ Read more
Here’s our original manifesto from Y2K.. ⌘ Read more
When I first started making algorithmic music with Ade Ward 24 years ago (as Slub), we decided to only make music with software we’d made ourselves. I’ve mostly stuck to that aim ever since, although after a couple of years we added a rule that we’d make a fundamental part of the software during performances to keep things interesting.
I’m starting to get a bit fed up with just doing that so now I’m thinking about adding an additional rule - only live code algorithmic music that I can run without a computer. My plan is … ⌘ Read more
I’ve been thinking about doing a bigger live coding event in Sheffield but it’s difficult to get funding to pay artist fees and expenses, and it’s not really possible to cover them from ticket sales. In the old days people often weren’t paid to play but this excludes people who can’t afford it.. But it was much easier to make events happen. How do people feel about this these days, both organisers and people travelling to perform (and of course those who do both)? ⌘ Read more
Nice podcast chat between Auriel Majumdar and Rian Treanor “Rotherham is the new Berlin”
https://shows.acast.com/state-of-the-arts/episodes/rotherham-is-the-new-berlin ⌘ Read more
Whoop I got accepted to #pifcamp ! Looking forward to it including working with @mikst and @lizziewlsn on some e-textile sensor + sound stuff
can you work out the pattern? https://strudel.cc/?6xjR_r7RUaPn ⌘ Read more
Strudel is too addictive https://strudel.cc/?Er88OsfCyeGt ⌘ Read more
On the train to Aachen, falling in love with @strudel’s new stepwise functions https://strudel.cc/?LSngl_Vg2IBs ⌘ Read more
Please stop writing down music.
“In all Indian musical traditions, learning, rationalization and sharing are part of an internal process within and between artists. The magnificence of this non-scribal technique is the acceptance of diversity and the possibility of continuous musical change. The internalization of structure and form in the art, the role of memory and rediscovering without written reference keeps the music moving and varied. Every voice is not identical; the possibility of music bending and swaying acro … ⌘ Read more
Heading to the last two days of the Politics of Machines conference on Thurs/Fri, presenting thoughts on Khipu interfaces with Paola Torres Núñez del Prado and @nebogeo
Had fun chatting to Mylar Melodies on his Why We Bleep podcast, although I was the tiredest I’ve been in a while so might be quite abstract.. Should be up in a couple of weeks ! ⌘ Read more
Tbh I really like the idea of superstar DJs performing errors to an unsuspecting crowd @pkirn https://cdm.link/2024/04/grimes-coachella/ ⌘ Read more
Huge catalogue of research on Indian music http://musicresearchlibrary.net/ ⌘ Read more