A while back I came up with this way of representing musical patterns as pure functions in Haskell: data Pattern a … More
Author: Alex McLean
PhD Thesis: Artist-Programmers and Programming Languages for the Arts
With some minor corrections done, my thesis is finally off to the printers. I’ve made a PDF available, and here’s … More
Motivation
Now here’s an hour well spent, Bret Victor giving a talk on “Inventing on Principle”: He demos some really nice … More
Live notation
I’m really excited to be working with Hester Reeve on a project funded by the AHRC digital transformations call, bringing together live … More
Computational thinking
Some great news today that the UK school ICT programme is going to be replaced/updated with computer science. As far … More
There must be no generative, procedural or computational art
This blog entry feels like a work in progress, so feedback is especially encouraged. Lately I’ve been considering a dichotomy … More
Best known and wrong: Dreyfus and Dreyfus
Since dipping my toe into cross-disciplinary research, I’ve noticed that it seems the best known results of a field are … More
PhD Viva and Silicone Bake
Last month was a bit crazy, lots of grant applications in the air and amongst it all my PhD examination … More
Quick custom Linux live CDs for workshops
People bring all kinds of laptops to workshops, and installing your software on them might take hours. So it’s nice … More
Social network time
I’m privileged to be able to hear my grandmother Billie Campbell singing The Old Lamplighter in the 1940s, even though I … More