Alex McLean

the live coding scene is 100% the thing that has made me most excited over the last couple of years: seeing people perform actually live music with computers, as free as jazz, freer, showing their screen, sharing what they're doing with an audience who understand what they're doing has felt so...

For the fairly busy strudel.cc project, we haven't had ai bot PRs since moving from Microsoft github to codeberg. I guess the incentives aren't there.
Maybe moving from a proprietary platform by an ai slop division of a corporation working on all kinds of actually evil projects would be a good step?

An excerpt from a tidal cycles live coding music set performance video by me

Performing the first track from the released "Shimmering Blossom" album in 2026.

Album available on Bandcamp:
Rangga Purnama Aji

Full video on YouTube:
youtu.be/7x-n7bUk3Iw?...

#algorave #livecoding

Many can't contribute to projects there for ethical reasons (e.g. microsoft's association with genocide, epstein, extractive LLMs, Trump, ICE etc), + github now exists to strip software of free/open source licenses.

Good to see more free/open source projects move off the proprietary microsoft github platform to codeberg etc.

I think it's fair to say that projects left behind aren't really free/open source.. [1/2]

Just to tie this up with my understanding: you have the right to practically do whatever you like with MIT code, it's a permissive license. That includes integrating it with AGPL code. When you distribute it, the AGPL then applies.

wow!

Sorry to hear that, hope 2026 is happier ! + hope we get to meet in person someday

Hey Rangga hope all is good with you !!

Uzu microgrant open call 2026!

Thanks to the generosity of all the contributors to the opencollective, we are able to open this call for development of uzu langs including funding community building events and other activities, and giving grants for software development work already contributed […]

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Hi @tidalcycles + @strudel people!

If you'd like to support + encourage software and community development of Strudel, Tidal and sibling projects, now would be great time!
https://opencollective.com/tidalcycles

This software is shared as free/open source with love, and created and supported […]

Heh fair enough, the demoscene was wayy ahead of Eno !

Live coding was a reaction against all that!

I co-ran a generative art mailing list called eu-gene from 1999, I think it was always compromised.. Pushed by Brian Eno away from human agency and into the dull wastelands of automation from the start, and cursed into perpetual, circular discussions around 'authorship'.

Maybe the algorave guidelines? github.com/Algorave/gui...
Which tries to make clear that algorave is broader than live coding to encompass all algorithmic music.. Post AI that would probably be worded differently though !

Which manifesto says that?

Also a bummer considering the original algorave in 2011 cautioned that the point wasn't just generating pieces with minimal input -- "algorave musicians don’t pretend their software is being creative, they take responsibility for the music they make, shaping it using whatever means they have"

Compassion through algorithms volume III, by algorave 55 track album

Released today, "Compassion through algorithms volume III" - a huge 55 track album full of really great music and noise from the live coding/algorithmic music community, fundraising to support Palestinian health, dignity and culture. Buy it today (name your price!) and bandcamp will waive their fee.

The Alpaca festival (on algorithmic patterns in the creative arts) aftermovie and photography now live on our website ! 2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/

Live code stream for Palestine, ~96 performances over 24 hours.
Starts at midnight UTC
eulerroom.com

London ! I'll be playing at the last ever @algorave.com at Corsica Studios this Wednesday 26th Nov before they close the doors for good, amongst a top multi-generational line-up of live coders + co. Come down if you're nearby!
ra.co/events/2280905

SOUNDS OF NOW: KONNAKOL, DRUM KIT & CODE SOUNDS OF NOW: KONNAKOL, DRUM KIT & CODE - Music in the Round %

Diving into final rehearsals for this gig in Sheffield this Saturday with the incredible percussionists B C Manjunath and Matt Davies
musicintheround.co.uk/events/sound...

Come over if you're nearby !

Strudel is served as a static website and all runs in the browser. There used to be a database with user patterns, but that had to be taken down due to abuse.

Codeberg.org Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

Migrating the big tidalcycles and strudel.cc projects to the free/open source codeberg.org platform was super easy. We self-hosted forgejo actions but that took no time to set up and the freedom of self-hosting those has all sorts of benefits. A lot of side projects to move but it's a start. [2/2]

A bit annoying that free/open source communities are almost all hosted by a closed source platform owned by microsoft AI who use it to IP-wash all those projects by training LLMs.. While also supporting genocide etc. An awful situation that we need to move away from ASAP. [1/2]

"Have you ever watched a very tired person typing" - now in stereo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZmuSekEoko

Endosymbiotic Computation: Unlearning Alpaca, and Why Dissipation Is Key - Shintaro Miyazaki YouTube video by Algorithmic Pattern

How to imagine computation without the malicious tech of our imperial way of life? I talked about this at a hybrid keynote for ALPACA2025 on „Endosymbiotic Computation“. I am definitely out of practice to talk freely in EN ;-) youtu.be/eRhgtwtkYv8?... thanks @slab.org @federicovisi.bsky.social

Honored to be prominently discussed in this #esolang podcast which raises some of the most critical questions in the space and covers a LOT of material in its nearly two hours

come to Sheffield !