The one that got away – Vocable Synthesis

I think one of my best ideas was “vocable synthesis”, which my friend Lucy just reminded me of. I wrote…

Alpaca Festival recap

Here’s a lovely video by Eva Yap, as a three-minute journey through Alpaca Festival 2025. It was a ride!

I didn’t set out to make Tidal, it emerged over an extended period of time, through my creative practice. Still,…

Alpaca 2025 is a festival and conference exploring Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts. Lucy Cheesman, Ray Morrison, Hazel Ryan…

Justin Pickard interviewed me (Alex McLean) for the FoAM Anarchive: Justin brought out some nice themes from our chats, love…

This is a big one for me – an upcoming collaboration with B C Manjunath and Matt Davies, exploring carnatic…

I just happened on a pandemic-era article about algorave from 2022. It’s really nicely written and researched, and I especially…

I once went to a workshop run by the poet John Hegley, he got us making poetry booklets out of…

Some notes from the embedded conference “working out situated universality” hosted by Julian Rohrhuber at IMM Duesseldorf. If you’re reading…

I’m just back from a productive week working with Mika Satomi and Lizzie Wilson on a mini project ‘Modulating Time’…