Alex McLean explained

Alex McLean should not be confused with Alec McLean.

Alex McLean
Nationality:British
Other Names:Yaxu [1]
Occupation:Musician, Researcher [2]
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,[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] 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.[23]

During 2016, McLean was sound artist in residence at the Open Data Institute, as part of the Sound and Music embedded programme.[24]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Interview with Alex McLean . 2024-01-07.
  2. Web site: Then Try This - Alex McLean. 2024-01-07.
  3. Web site: Muggs . Joe . Red Bull Music Academy . Algoraving: Dancing to Live Coding . 26 January 2016.
  4. News: Perry . Grayson . Is the world wide web art's final frontier? . The Times . 26 January 2016.
  5. Web site: Welleman . Vincent . SLUB-trio Muziek moet het visuele volgen, niet omgekeerd . Kwadratuur . 19 May 2010 . 26 January 2016.
  6. Web site: Temkin . Daniel . Interview with Alex McLean . 26 January 2016.
  7. Web site: Fortune . Stephen . What on earth is livecoding?. Dazed Digital . 14 May 2013 .
  8. Web site: NOS . Algorave: dansen op software . 29 November 2013 . 26 January 2016 .
  9. Cheshire. Tom. Hacking meets clubbing with the 'algorave'. Wired. 29 August 2013. 29 August 2013.
  10. Web site: Bell. Sarah. British Science Association. 9 November 2015. Live Coding Brings Programming to Life – an interview with Alex McLean. 4 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304142548/http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/blog/live-coding-brings-programming-to-life-an-interview-with-alex-mac. dead.
  11. Web site: Hacking + Clubbing = Algoraves!. 10 November 2015. ARTE. https://web.archive.org/web/20160203051632/http://www.arte.tv/fr/hacking-clubbing-algoraves/7769884,CmC=7768150.html. 3 February 2016. dead.
  12. Real DJs Code Live. Wired. 26 January 2016. Andrews. Robert.
  13. 2004. Live coding in laptop performance. Organised Sound. Cambridge University Press. 3. 321–330. 10.1017/S135577180300030X. Collins, N.. McLean, A.. Rohrhuber, J.. Ward, A.. 56413136. amp.
  14. Web site: McLean. Alex. Tidal – Pattern Language for Live Coding of Music. Sound and Music Computing. 22 May 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20171015145948/http://smcnetwork.org/node/1371. 15 October 2017. dead. dmy-all.
  15. Web site: Toplap Credits. Sound and Music Computing. 9 November 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20171015145948/http://smcnetwork.org/node/1371. 15 October 2017. dead. dmy-all.
  16. Web site: International Conference on Live Coding - Home. Iclc.toplap.org. 8 August 2020.
  17. Web site: Hacking + Clubbing = Algoraves!. 10 November 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160203051632/http://www.arte.tv/fr/hacking-clubbing-algoraves/7769884,CmC=7768150.html. 3 February 2016. dead.
  18. Book: Gere, Charlie. Community Without Community in Digital Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. 7 August 2012. 9781137026675.
  19. Book: Mackenzie, Adrian. Cutting Code: Software and Sociality. Peter Lang. 1 January 2006. 9780820478234.
  20. Book: Futures Past: Thirty Years of Arts Computing. Intellect Books. 1 January 2007. 9781841501680. Anna. Bentkowska-Kafel. Trish. Cashen. Hazel. Gardiner.
  21. Book: Violence and the Limits of Representation. Palgrave Macmillan. 31 May 2013. 9781137296917. Graham. Matthews. Sam. Goodman.
  22. Armitage. Tom. Making music with live computer code. Wired UK . 9 November 2015.
  23. Web site: Squires. Paul. In conversation with Kate Sicchio and Alex McLean. 9 November 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160201055841/https://www.imperica.com/en/in-conversation-with/in-conversation-with-kate-sicchio-and-alex-mclean. 1 February 2016. dead.
  24. Web site: Alex McLean chosen as ODI's sound artist in residence. 26 January 2016. Soundandmusic.org .
  25. Web site: Peak Cut, by Yaxu. Computerclub.bandcamp.com. 8 August 2020.
  26. Web site: Broken release. Chordpunch.com. 8 August 2020.

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