Live coding & music patterns with TidalCycles

Tinderbox PlayAway Games Festival is a 2 week festival showcasing and celebrating the creativity, diversity, innovation, and imagination in games and interactive media. As well as a festival for people involved in games, we want to invite and involve people from other sectors and different artforms.

Tinderbox PlayAway Games Festival

An introduction to TidalCycles, and its playful, pattern-based approach to making live music with code.

An introduction to TidalCycles with creator Alex McLean, and its playful, pattern-based approach to making live music with code.-Alex McLeanAlex is a musician, software artist and researcher based between Sheffield and Munich. He is active across the digital arts, co-founding the Algorave and TOPLAP live coding movements, and the AlgoMech festival for algorithmic and mechanical movement. He created the popular free/open source TidalCycles live coding environment for music, performing with it at festivals around the world including Sonar, Glastonbury, STRP, Vivo, Transmediale, Ars Electronica and No Bounds. As a researcher he works part time as part of the PENELOPE project, investigating the structures of ancient weaves, and re-inserting weaving in the history of science and technology.Websites:<a href="https://slab.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">slab.org</a><a href="https://tidalcycles.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">tidalcycles.org</a><a href="https://post.lurk.org/@yaxu" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">post.lurk.org/@yaxu</a><a href="https://youtube.com/yaxu" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">youtube.com/yaxu</a>

Event DetailsOnce you have registered for a ticket, you will receive an email with the link and details needed to join the session. The event will also be recorded and footage will be made available online through our website and social media channels for people to watch back afterwards. -DonationsThe festival is being run on a donation-based model. We want it to be free &amp; accessible for anyone to attend, but we also want to pay our speakers and performers fairly. If you are able to make a donation this would be a big help.You can donate while booking through eventbrite here, or you can donate through <a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=B8KLSVF8TYLVA" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">paypal</a> if you&#x27;d prefer.-Tinderbox PlayAway Games FestivalTwo-week festival featuring over 30 game designers, artists, composers, educators and others involved in games. Join us for panel discussions, workshops, demos, music performances, digital play sessions, game jams and more! More info at <a href="https://tinderboxcollective.org/playaway/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">tinderboxcollective.org/playaway</a>

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Live coding & music patterns with TidalCycles

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