Publications

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McLean, Alex. 2024. “From Konnakol to Live Coding.” In Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling, and Design, 36–41. FARM 2024. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677996.3678290. Download
McLean, Alex, and Kate Sicchio. 2023. “Preprint: Live Notation for Patterns of Movement.” TDR Journal, June. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8078999. Download
Griffiths, Dave, Elizabeth Wilson, Iván Paz, Alex McLean, Joana Chicau, Flor de Fuego, Timo Hoogland, Eloi Isern, Michael-Jon Mizra, and Robert Pibernat. 2023. “Patterns in Deep Time.” In Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (XCoAx). Wiemar, Germany. https://doi.org/10.34626/xcoax.2023.11th.277. Download
McLean, Alex, Julian Rohrhuber, and Renate Weiser. 2023. “The Meaning of Live: From Art Without Audience to Programs Without Users.” In . Utrecht, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7843567. Download
Roos, Felix, and Alex McLean. 2023. “Strudel: Live Coding Patterns on the Web.” In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Live Coding. Utrecht, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7842142. Download
Wilson, Elizabeth, Deva Schubert, Mika Satomi, Alex McLean, and Juan Felipe Amaya Gozalez. 2023. “MosAIck: Staging Contemporary AI Performance - Connecting Live Coding, E-Textiles and Movement.” In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Live Coding (ICLC2023). Utrecht, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7843540. Download
Roos, Felix, Alex McLean, Bernhard Wagner, Bradford Powell, urswilke, Ian Clester, Jack Armitage, et al. 2023. Strudel (Zuckerguss). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7763205.
McLean, Alex, David Ogborn, Lennart Melzer, Ben Gold, Martin, Julian Rohrhuber, vivid-synth, et al. 2023. TidalCycles 1.9.4 (Stitch). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7725484.
McLean, Alex. 2023. “Pattern and Groove in Live Coding.” In Proceedings of Groove Workshop 2023, 40. Online. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10377710. Download
Blackwell, Alan, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, and Thor Magnusson. 2022. Live Coding: A User’s Manual. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7383848. Download
Roos, Felix, and Alex McLean. 2022. “Strudel: Algorithmic Patterns for the Web.” In . Cannes, France. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6768844. Download
Forment, Raphaël Maurice, and Alex McLean. 2022. “How Live Is Live Coding? The Case of Tidal’s Longest Night.” In . https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6797573. Download
McLean, Alex, Raphaël Forment, Sylvain Le Beux, and Damián Silvani. 2022. “TidalVortex Zero.” In . Limerick, Ireland. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6456380. Download
McLean, Alex. 2022. “TidalCycles Pattern.” In The Book of X: 10 Years of Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, edited by Miguel Carvalhais, Mario Verdicchio, Luísa Ribas, and André Rangel, 235–37. i2ADS/CITTAR. https://doi.org/10.24840/978-989-9049-26-0. Download
McLean, Alex. 2021. “Alternate Timelines for TidalCycles.” In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Live Coding. Valdivia, Chile. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5788732. Download
Wilson, Elizabeth, Shawn Lawson, Alex McLean, and Jeremy Stewart. 2021. “Autonomous Creation of Musical Pattern from Types and Models in Live Coding.” In Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X. Online. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5891046. Download
Harlizius-Klück, Ellen, and Alex McLean. 2021. “PENELOPE - A Study of Weaving as Technical Mode of Existence.” In Algorithmic and Aesthetic Literacy. Emerging Transdisciplinary Explorations for the Digital Age, 59–80. Opladen: Barbara Budrich. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7628707. Download
Mclean, Alex. 2020. “Algorithmic Pattern.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 265--270. Birmingham, UK. https://zenodo.org/record/4813352. Download
Fanfani, Giovanni, Dave Griffiths, Ellen Harlizius-Klück, Annapurna Mamidipudi, and Alex McLean. 2020. “(Micro-)Performing Ancient Weaving in the PENELOPE Project.” Performance Research 25 (3): 123–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2020.1807772. Download
Harlizius-Klück, Ellen, and Alex McLean. 2020. “The PENELOPE Project: A Case Study in Computational Thinking.” In Algorithmic and Aesthetic Literacy Matter: Approaches for a Transformative Network Society. Verlag Barbara Budrich. https://zenodo.org/record/4680852. Download
McLean, Alex. 2020. “The Live Loom.” In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Live Coding. Limerick, Ireland: University of Limerick. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3939176. Download
Andersen, Kristina, Ron Wakkary, Laura Devendorf, and Alex McLean. 2019. “Digital Crafts-Machine-Ship: Creative Collaborations with Machines.” ACM Interactions 27 (1): 30–35. https://doi.org/10.1145/3373644. Download
McLean, Alex, and Renick Bell. 2019. “Pattern, Code and Algorithmic Drumming Circles.” In Publication Title: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Live Coding. Madrid, Spain: Medialab Prado / Madrid Destino. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3946174. Download
McLean, Alex. 2019. “Algorave: Dancing to Algorithms.” In The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture, edited by Nicholas Cook, Monique M. Ingalls, and DavidEditors Trippett, 175–77. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316676639.016. Download
McLean, Alex, and Ellen Harlizius-Klück. 2018. “Fabricating Algorithmic Art.” In Parsing Digital, 10–21. London, UK: Austrian Cultural Forum. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2155745. Download
McLean, Alex, Ellen Harlizius-Klück, and David Griffiths. 2018. “Digital Art: A Long History.” In , 71–77. Porto, Portugal. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2556604. Download
McLean, Alex, and Roger Dean, eds. 2018. The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music. New York, NY: OUP USA.
McLean, Alex, and Roger T. Dean. 2018. “Musical Algorithms as Tools, Languages, and Partners.” The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music, February. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1228952. Download
Magnusson, Thor, and Alex McLean. 2018. “Performing with Patterns of Time.” In . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1193251. Download
McLean, Alex, and Roger Dean. 2018. “Algorithmic Trajectories.” In . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1228959. Download
McLean, Alex, Giovanni Fanfani, and Ellen Harlizius-Klück. 2018. “Cyclic Patterns of Movement across Weaving, Epiplokē and Live Coding.” Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 10 (1): 5–30. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/ 10.12801/1947-5403.2018.10.01.01. Download
Sicchio, Kate, and Alex McLean. 2017. “Sound Choreography <> Body Code: Software Deployment and Notational Engagement without Trace.” Contemporary Theatre Review 27 (3): 405–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2017.1343244. Download
McLean, Alex. 2017. “Lessons from the Luddites.” Furtherfield (blog). June 2, 2017. https://www.furtherfield.org/lessons-from-the-luddites/.
McLean, Alex, Ellen Harlizius-Klück, and Janis Jefferies. 2017. “Introduction: Weaving Codes, Coding Weaves.” TEXTILE 15 (2): 118–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2017.1298232. Download
Griffiths, David, and Alex McLean. 2017. “Textility of Code: A Catalogue of Errors.” TEXTILE 15 (2): 198–214. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2017.1298308. Download
Burland, Karen, and Alex McLean. 2016. “Understanding Live Coding Events.” International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 12 (2): 139–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2016.1227596. Download
Ogborn, David, Eldad Tsabary, Ian Jarvis, Alexandra Cardenas, and Alex McLean. 2015. “Extramuros: Making Music in a Browser-Based, Language-Neutral Collaborative Live Coding Environment.” In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Live Coding, University of Leeds, ICSRiM. https://iclc.toplap.org/2015/meta/100_Extramuros_making_music_in_a_browser.pdf. Download
Padilla, Victor, Alex McLean, Alan Marsden, and Kia Ng. 2015. “Improving Optical Music Recognition by Combining Outputs from Multiple Sources.” In ISMIR, 517–23. https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/84562/. Download
McLean, Alex. 2015. “Reflections on Live Coding Collaboration.” In Proceedings of 3rd Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X (XCoAx). http://2015.xcoax.org/pdf/xcoax2015-McLean.pdf. Download
McLean, Alex, Thor Magnusson, Kia Ng, Shelly Knotts, and Joanne Armitage, eds. 2015. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Live Coding. Leeds, United Kingdom: ICSRiM, School of Music. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/60029/1/iclc2015-proceedings.pdf. Download
Ng, Kia, Alex McLean, and Alan Marsden. 2014. “Big Data Optical Music Recognition with Multi Images and Multi Recognisers.” In Proceedings of Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/eva2014.26. Download
Ng, Kia, Joanne Armitage, and Alex McLean. 2014. “The Colour of Music: Real-Time Music Visualisation with Synaesthetic Sound-Colour Mapping.” In Proceedings of Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/eva2014.3. Download
Collins, Nick, and Alex McLean. 2014. “Algorave: Live Performance of Algorithmic Electronic Dance Music.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 355–58. London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7927270. Download
Padilla, Victor, Alan Marsden, Alex McLean, and Kia Ng. 2014. “Improving OMR for Digital Music Libraries with Multiple Recognisers and Multiple Sources.” In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Digital Libraries for Musicology Workshop, 1–8. ACM. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2660168.2660175. Download
Blackwell, Alan, Alex McLean, James Noble, and Julian Rohrhuber. 2014. “Collaboration and Learning through Live Coding (Dagstuhl Seminar 13382).” Edited by Alan Blackwell, Alex McLean, James Noble, and Julian Rohrhuber. Dagstuhl Reports 3 (9): 130–68. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/DagRep.3.9.130. Download
Hession, Paul, and Alex McLean. 2014. “Extending Instruments with Live Algorithms in a Percussion / Code Duo.” In Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Convention of the AISB: Live Algorithms. https://zenodo.org/record/7927264. Download
Parkinson, Adam, and Alex McLean. 2014. “Interfacing with the Night.” In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Live Interfaces. https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/12843/. Download
McLean, Alex. 2014. “Making Programming Languages to Dance to: Live Coding with Tidal.” In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling and Design. https://doi.org/10.1145/2633638.2633647. Download
Cox, Geoff, and Alex McLean. 2014. “Not Just For Fun.” In Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Paradox and Pain in Computing, edited by Olga Goriunova, 157–73. Bloomsbury. https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item/88xx7. Download
McLean, Alex, Julian Rohrhuber, and Nick Collins. 2014. “Special Issue on Live Coding: Editor’s Notes.” Computer Music Journal 38 (1).
McLean, Alex, and Kate Sicchio. 2014. “Sound Choreography <> Body Code.” In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X (XCoAx), 355–62. http://2014.xcoax.org/pdf/xcoax2014-McLean.pdf. Download
McLean, Alex. 2013. “The Textural X.” In Proceedings of First Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X (XCoAx), 81–88. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7895677. Download
McLean, Alex, EunJoo Shin, and Kia Ng. 2013. “The Paralinguistic Microphone.” In Proceedings of 13th Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 381–84. Seoul. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1178608. Download
McLean, Alex, and Geraint Wiggins. 2012. “Computer Programming in the Creative Arts.” In Computers and Creativity, edited by Jon McCormack and Mark d’Inverno, 235–52. Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31727-9_9. Download
McLean, Alex, and Hester Reeve. 2012. “Live Notation: Acoustic Resonance?” In Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference, 70–75. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/live-notation-acoustic-resonance.pdf?c=icmc;idno=bbp2372.2012.012;format=pdf. Download
Cox, Geoff, and Alex McLean. 2012. Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression. Software Studies. MIT Press.
McLean, Alex. 2011. “Artist-Programmers and Programming Languages for the Arts.” PhD Thesis, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London. https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/6611/. Download
McLean, Alex, and Geraint Wiggins. 2011. “Texture: Visual Notation for the Live Coding of Pattern.” In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2011, 612–28. https://zenodo.org/record/7895587. Download
Forth, Jamie, Geraint A. Wiggins, and Alex McLean. 2010. “Unifying Conceptual Spaces: Concept Formation in Musical Creative Systems.” Minds and Machines 20 (4): 503–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-010-9207-x. Download
McLean, Alex, and Geraint Wiggins. 2010. “Bricolage Programming in the Creative Arts.” In 22nd Psychology of Programming Interest Group 2010. Madrid. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7231929. Download
McLean, Alex, and Geraint Wiggins. 2010. “Live Coding Towards Computational Creativity.” In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Creativity 2010, 175–79. https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2010/papers/mclean-wiggins.pdf. Download
McLean, Alex, and Geraint Wiggins. 2010. “Tidal - Pattern Language for the Live Coding of Music.” In Proceedings of the 7th Sound and Music Computing Conference 2010, 331–34. Barcelona. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.849841. Download
McLean, Alex, Dave Griffiths, Nick Collins, and Geraint Wiggins. 2010. “Visualisation of Live Code.” In Proceedings of Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London 2010, 26–30. https://slab.org/writing/visualisation-of-live-code.pdf. Download
McLean, Alex, and Geraint Wiggins. 2009. “Words, Movement and Timbre.” In Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2009, 276–79. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228372795_Words_movement_and_timbre. Download
McLean, Alex. 2008. “Live Coding for Free.” In FLOSS+Art, edited by Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk. Mute Publishing Ltd. https://zenodo.org/record/7940366. Download
Forth, Jamie, Alex McLean, and Geraint Wiggins. 2008. “Musical Creativity on the Conceptual Level.” In Proceedings of International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity 2008, 21–30. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7152007. Download
McLean, Alex, and Geraint Wiggins. 2008. “Vocable Synthesis.” In Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference 2008. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/vocable-synthesis.pdf?c=icmc;idno=bbp2372.2008.084;format=pdf. Download
McLean, Alex. 2007. “Improvising with Synthesised Vocables, with Analysis Towards Computational Creativity.” Goldsmiths College, University of London. Download
McLean, Alex, Frederic F. Leymarie, and Geraint Wiggins. 2007. “Apollonius Diagrams and the Representation of Sounds and Music.” In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering, 276–81. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7140761. Download
McLean, Alex. 2004. “Hacking Perl in Nightclubs.” Perl.Com, August 8, 2004. https://perl.com/pub/2004/08/31/livecode.html/.
Cox, Geoff, Alex McLean, and Adrian Ward. 2004. “Coding Praxis: Reconsidering the Aesthetics of Code.” In Read_me Software Art and Cultures, edited by Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, 161–74. Aarhus University Press. https://zenodo.org/record/7137355. Download
Ward, Adrian, Julian Rohrhuber, Fredrik Olofsson, Alex McLean, Dave Griffiths, Nick Collins, and Amy Alexander. 2004. “Live Algorithm Programming and a Temporary Organisation for Its Promotion.” In Read_me — Software Art and Cultures, edited by Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin. https://zenodo.org/record/7139247. Download
Collins, Nick, Alex McLean, Julian Rohrhuber, and Adrian Ward. 2003. “Live Coding in Laptop Performance.” Organised Sound 8 (03): 321–30. https://doi.org/10.1017/s135577180300030x. Download
McLean, Alex. 2001. forkbomb.pl. https://zkm.de/en/forkbombpl.
Cox, Geoff, Alex McLean, and Adrian Ward. 2000. “The Aesthetics of Generative Code.” In International Conference on Generative Art. https://zenodo.org/record/7135380. Download