Algorave

See also: Rave and Live coding
Algorave
General Information
Related genres Electronic music, computer music, generative music, electronic dance music, techno
Location Worldwide
Related events Music festival, rave, electronic dance music festivals, circuit party
Related topics Live electronic music, VJ, livecoding

An Algorave is an event where people dance to music generated from algorithms, often using live coding techniques, and short for "algorithmic rave."[1] Alex McLean of Slub and Nick Collins coined the word "algorave", with the first event to be held under that name taking place in 2012.[2] It has since become a movement, with algoraves taking place around the world.[3]

Description

An algorave is an event where people dance to music generated from algorithms, often using live coding techniques.[1] Algoraves can include a range of styles, including a complex form of minimal techno, and has been described as a meeting point of hacker philosophy, geek culture, and clubbing.[4]

Algorave logo (a spirangle).

Although live coding is common place,[5] any algorithmic music is welcome which is "wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive conditionals",[6] which is a corruption of the definition of rave music[7] in the UK's Criminal Justice Act. Although algorave musicians have been compared with DJs,[8] they are in fact live musicians or improvisers, creating music live, usually by writing code, rather than mixing recorded music.[9]

At an algorave the computer musician is not the main point of focus for the audience and instead attention is often centred on a screen that displays live coding, that is the process of writing code, so the audience can not just dance but also to see the result of programming.

History

The first self-proclaimed "algorave" was held in London as a warmup concert for the SuperCollider Symposium 2012.[10][11] However the name was first coined in 2011, after two live coders (Nick Collins and Alex McLean) tuned into a happy hardcore pirate radio station on the way to a performance in the UK.[4] Algorave quickly grew into an international movement, with algoraves having been held in Australia,[12] North America,[13][14][15][16] and Asia[17] as well as Europe by 2014.

Community

Algorave is an international movement with a community of artists and technologies. See the Algorave category page.

References

  1. 1 2 Dazed. "What on earth is livecoding?". Dazed.
  2. ↑ Cheshire, Tom (29 August 2013). "Hacking meets clubbing with the 'algorave'". Wired Magazine. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
  3. ↑ Marvin, Rob (21 April 2014). "Algoraves: Dancing to live coding". SD Times. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Hacking meets clubbing with the 'algorave'". Wired UK.
  5. ↑ Mark Guzdial (26 September 2013). "Trip Report on Dagstuhl Seminar on Live Coding". acm.org.
  6. ↑ "Algoraves: dancing to algorithms". Boing Boing.
  7. ↑ "Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994". legislation.gov.uk.
  8. ↑ "Les programmeurs sont les nouveaux DJ". Slate.fr.
  9. ↑ "Algorave". in-corporeo.
  10. ↑ "Live AlgoRave – video highlights - SuperCollider Symposium 2012". sc2012.org.uk.
  11. ↑ "RA: Supercollider 2012 Warm Up – Live Algorave at Nnnnn, London (2012)". Resident Advisor.
  12. ↑ http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?492764
  13. ↑ ArmadaDe Lindo (2014-01-04), armada de lindo, august 9 2013, retrieved 2016-04-24
  14. ↑ "The Grid TO". thegridto.com.
  15. ↑ "Algorave in Mexico City".
  16. ↑ "/*vivo*/ 2012".
  17. ↑ http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?550866

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