As someone whose favourite hobbies in any spare time are coding and making music (albeit using more traditional instruments), I absolutely love that this is a thing. If I wasn't in bed by 9 most days these days I'd be right there :)
I am pretty ancient and I had to read through the article twice to get my head round it. Then I looked at the links and the YouTube video. You know what. I actually got what it was about and I liked it quite a lot. I am way past dancing and clubbing but the mix between music and art I find really interesting. Don't think I will be going to a 'gig' but good luck and well done to those promoting it.
I am an older reader who studied Fortran, Basic and even used Punched Cards as an input mechanism. I listened to Stockhousen and Cabaret Voltaire. Similar to the Cabs philosophy, it’s great to see the spirit of openness, freedom and collaboration is still alive with artistic musical expression generated through new technical media. A very interesting article. Dance the night away.
"I become briefly obsessed with making a sample of crow’s cawing work over a series of cowbell donks,". Really enjoyed the whole article but this sentence especially made me smile with a shared sense of getting obsessed over the most unlikely things 😀. Good to read Sheffield is still pushing the boundaries of electronic music. Loved this article, thank you Holly.
You've done it again - a readable, informative article about a world in which I have no experience and, until now, I confess, minimal interest. My fave dance music is mostly strict tempo, so this article is a real eye-opener (and brain curdler). Huge relief to see reference to knitting and textile patterns, something I can almost understand - the 21st Century version of Jacquard weaving looms? Love the 'algorave' word coinage, too. Creativity in language as well as music - brilliant!
Fascinating article. I have never heard of this scene and it's so refreshing to hear of people being creative in new ways. Something genuinely good happening in the world!
I had heard of algorave and have a bit of previous experience with live coding, but I think the piece is beginner friendly and a good way to introduce people to something new and out of their experience. For myself, this is exactly the kind of interesting and informative piece that I enjoy. 👍
Nice piece, good to see this stuff getting more attention! Although something that I've liked about the scene in Sheffield since moving here has actually been that live coding with systems like Tidal isn't that tightly coupled to the idea of algorave - I've seen some great sets by people using these tools but working in genres from ambient to black metal and appearing on regular lineups alongside acts who use more normal instruments...
Do you see these sets at Pattern or elsewhere? As a developer and techno fan I’ve always liked the idea of live coding but been put off by how it veers towards abstract and glitchy. I’m not sure what it offers over making something live on a Push or modular synths.
Still, really interesting article and it was cool to see that sheffield is home to a lot of this
Good question re what it offers. I don't want to speak for others, but for me there are probably three things. One is that any interface encourages you to do things in certain ways, and if the ways that a particular live coding environment encourages you to do things in ways that you find interesting then that's good. The second is that you can actually change those ways - live coding environments are typically very customizable so you can write helper functions ahead of time for things would otherwise be complicated to realise. And the third is simply that if you can type fast then it's actually a very quick and flexible way of expressing yourself.
That's not to say that it's absolutely better than other ways of making electronic music, but it definitely has benefits.
Overlong and incomprehensible piece presumably aimed for the target audience of the Tribune-of no interest whatsoever to ancients like me.I thought Alorgave was somewhere in Portugal.You need to be aiming for a broad church.
Hey Ron, I found this comment peculiarly ageist. Why should being older mean a certain genre of music automatically wouldn‘t interest you? And re broad church…surely that‘s exactly what this article offers. If the Trib writes about algorithmic rave music as well as nature preservation projects and Kommune‘s court cases and local history…isn‘t that the very diversity of topics you‘re claiming it should be aiming for?
As someone whose favourite hobbies in any spare time are coding and making music (albeit using more traditional instruments), I absolutely love that this is a thing. If I wasn't in bed by 9 most days these days I'd be right there :)
I am pretty ancient and I had to read through the article twice to get my head round it. Then I looked at the links and the YouTube video. You know what. I actually got what it was about and I liked it quite a lot. I am way past dancing and clubbing but the mix between music and art I find really interesting. Don't think I will be going to a 'gig' but good luck and well done to those promoting it.
I am an older reader who studied Fortran, Basic and even used Punched Cards as an input mechanism. I listened to Stockhousen and Cabaret Voltaire. Similar to the Cabs philosophy, it’s great to see the spirit of openness, freedom and collaboration is still alive with artistic musical expression generated through new technical media. A very interesting article. Dance the night away.
"I become briefly obsessed with making a sample of crow’s cawing work over a series of cowbell donks,". Really enjoyed the whole article but this sentence especially made me smile with a shared sense of getting obsessed over the most unlikely things 😀. Good to read Sheffield is still pushing the boundaries of electronic music. Loved this article, thank you Holly.
You've done it again - a readable, informative article about a world in which I have no experience and, until now, I confess, minimal interest. My fave dance music is mostly strict tempo, so this article is a real eye-opener (and brain curdler). Huge relief to see reference to knitting and textile patterns, something I can almost understand - the 21st Century version of Jacquard weaving looms? Love the 'algorave' word coinage, too. Creativity in language as well as music - brilliant!
Fascinating article. I have never heard of this scene and it's so refreshing to hear of people being creative in new ways. Something genuinely good happening in the world!
I had heard of algorave and have a bit of previous experience with live coding, but I think the piece is beginner friendly and a good way to introduce people to something new and out of their experience. For myself, this is exactly the kind of interesting and informative piece that I enjoy. 👍
Nice piece, good to see this stuff getting more attention! Although something that I've liked about the scene in Sheffield since moving here has actually been that live coding with systems like Tidal isn't that tightly coupled to the idea of algorave - I've seen some great sets by people using these tools but working in genres from ambient to black metal and appearing on regular lineups alongside acts who use more normal instruments...
Do you see these sets at Pattern or elsewhere? As a developer and techno fan I’ve always liked the idea of live coding but been put off by how it veers towards abstract and glitchy. I’m not sure what it offers over making something live on a Push or modular synths.
Still, really interesting article and it was cool to see that sheffield is home to a lot of this
Good question re what it offers. I don't want to speak for others, but for me there are probably three things. One is that any interface encourages you to do things in certain ways, and if the ways that a particular live coding environment encourages you to do things in ways that you find interesting then that's good. The second is that you can actually change those ways - live coding environments are typically very customizable so you can write helper functions ahead of time for things would otherwise be complicated to realise. And the third is simply that if you can type fast then it's actually a very quick and flexible way of expressing yourself.
That's not to say that it's absolutely better than other ways of making electronic music, but it definitely has benefits.
Overlong and incomprehensible piece presumably aimed for the target audience of the Tribune-of no interest whatsoever to ancients like me.I thought Alorgave was somewhere in Portugal.You need to be aiming for a broad church.
Hey Ron, I found this comment peculiarly ageist. Why should being older mean a certain genre of music automatically wouldn‘t interest you? And re broad church…surely that‘s exactly what this article offers. If the Trib writes about algorithmic rave music as well as nature preservation projects and Kommune‘s court cases and local history…isn‘t that the very diversity of topics you‘re claiming it should be aiming for?