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Alex McLean

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Alex McLean's Degrees

PhD Computer Science Goldsmiths, University of London
Masters Music University of York

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According to Wikipedia, Alex McLean is a British musician and researcher. He is notable for his key role in developing live coding as a musical practice, including for creating TidalCycles, a live-coding environment that allows programmer musicians to code simply and quickly, and for coining the term Algorave with Nick Collins.

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Alex McLean's Published Works

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Live coding in laptop performance (2003) (299)
Making programming languages to dance to: live coding with tidal (2014) (57)
Algorave: A Survey of the History, Aesthetics and Technology of Live Performance of Algorithmic Electronic Dance Music (2014) (49)
The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music (2018) (49)
TIDAL – PATTERN LANGUAGE FOR LIVE CODING OF MUSIC (2010) (47)
Collaboration and learning through live coding (Dagstuhl Seminar 13382) (2013) (30)
Live Music-Making: A Rich Open Task Requires a Rich Open Interface (2013) (28)
Bricolage Programming in the Creative Arts (2010) (28)
Unifying Conceptual Spaces: Concept Formation in Musical Creative Systems (2010) (27)
Digital crafts-machine-ship (2019) (22)
Collaboration and learning through live coding (2014) (21)
Texture: Visual Notation for Live Coding of Pattern (2011) (19)
Extramuros: making music in a browser-based, language-neutral collaborative live coding environment (2015) (18)
Live Coding Towards Computational Creativity (2010) (16)
Musical creativity on the conceptual level (2008) (15)
Improving OMR for Digital Music Libraries with Multiple Recognisers and Multiple Sources (2014) (13)
Understanding live coding events (2016) (9)
Reflections on live coding collaboration (2015) (7)
The Colour of Music: Real-time Music Visualisation with Synaesthetic Sound-colour Mapping (2014) (7)
Big Data Optical Music Recognition with Multi Images and Multi Recognisers (2014) (7)
Sound choreography: body code (2013) (6)
Voronoi diagrams of music (5)
Not Just for Fun (2014) (5)
Improving Optical Music Recognition by Combining Outputs from Multiple Sources (2015) (5)
Words , Movement and Timbre (2009) (5)
Embodied creativity (2009) (4)
Live Notation: acoustic resonance? (2012) (4)
Petrol: Reactive Pattern Language For Improvised Music (2010) (4)
Computer Programming in the Creative Arts (2012) (4)
Cyclic Patterns of Movement Across Weaving, Epiplokē and Live Coding (2018) (4)
Extending Instruments with Live Algorithms in a Percussion / Code Duo (4)
Textility of Code: A Catalogue of Errors (2017) (4)
Introduction: Weaving Codes, Coding Weaves (2017) (4)
Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles (1994) (3)
Sound Choreography <> Body Code: Software Deployment and Notational Engagement without Trace (2017) (3)
Apollonius diagrams and the Representation of Sounds and Music (2007) (3)
Performing with Patterns of Time (2018) (3)
A Modular Biolocomotion Emulator for Hydrodynamic Testing in a Towing Tank (2018) (3)
Musical Algorithms as Tools, Languages, and Partners (2018) (2)
The Live Loom (2020) (2)
Vocable synthesis (2008) (2)
Algorithmic Pattern (2020) (2)
PhD Transfer Report (2009) (2)
Musical Algorithms as Tools, Languages and Partners: A Perspective (2018) (1)
Code for-Itself (2012) (1)
Chapter 14 : Performing with Patterns of Time (2018) (1)
(Micro-)Performing Ancient Weaving in the PENELOPE project (2020) (1)
Feedforward: (2021) (1)
slub: Phone_Mr_Biskov (2008) (0)
Aesthetic Diversities in Acting Training (2014) (0)
FARM 2017 performances (2017) (0)
Invited talk: Live coding and the 'what-if' paradigm (2022) (0)
slub: Phone_Mr_Biskov (2008) (0)
Algorave: Dancing to Algorithms (2019) (0)
Algorithmic Trajectories (2018) (0)
Colette's Christmas (1993) (0)
EFFECTS OF SET-SIZE ON ABSTRACT CONCEPT LEARNING IN RATS USING MATCH/NON-MATCH TO SAMPLE PROCEDURES (2010) (0)
Interfacing with the Night (2014) (0)
Violence, Memory, and America (2011) (0)
Book review: MARC LEMAN, Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. 320 pp. ISBN 9780262122931 (hbk) $40.00/£22.95 (2010) (0)
Electronic Literature + Live Coding Jam/Workshop (2020) (0)
Autonomous Creation of Musical Pattern from Types and Models in Live Coding (2021) (0)
Session details: Session I (2014) (0)
The PENELOPE Project: (0)
In this issue (2017) (0)
The application of the concept of 'citizens plus' to status Indians in Canada (2000) (0)
Paralinguistic Microphone (2013) (0)
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Live Coding (2015) (0)
Tidal: Domain specific language for live coding of (musical) pattern (2014) (0)
sonic-pi: v2.7.0 - Rerezzed (2015) (0)
Scientitic Committee and Reviewers (2006) (0)
Live Interfaces (2015) (0)
Alternate Timelines for TidalCycles (2022) (0)
Private Palm Beach: Tropical Style (1992) (0)
Seek Electricity: A Multiple Theatre Manifesto (2012) (0)
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGPLAN international workshop on Functional art, music, modeling & design (2014) (0)
Live Notation ("RockspaceStar") (2012) (0)
Weaving Codes: Special issue of Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture (2017) (0)
Pattern, Code and Algorithmic Drumming Circles (2019) (0)
Towards Improving Collaboration Between Visualists and Musicians at Algoraves (2019) (0)
DVD Program Notes (2011) (0)
Unravelling live coding (2016) (0)
The PENELOPE Project: A Case Study in Computational Thinking (2021) (0)
Products of Interest (2014) (0)
Approaching Ambient Drama: Reflections on Two Immersive Experiments (2018) (0)

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