Projects

Recent and upcoming events and performances are listed over here.

I do solo work as Yaxu, including Spicule LP crowdfund, and Peak Cut EP already released on the Computer Club label.
slub live ambient gabba with Ade Ward and Dave Griffiths
I started the TidalCycles live coding environment, now a free/open source project
I’m making Alpaca as a site for exploring Algorithmic Pattern (more soon).
I curate the annual Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement
I work as a postdoc on Ellen Harlizius-Klück‘s PENELOPE project at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, from 2016-2021.
Sound Choreography <> Body Code, a live coding + live choreography project with Kate Sicchio
TOPLAP organisation for promotion of live algorithm programming, with many others
Algorave with whoever will listen
Eulerroom likewise
Aalleexx livecode duo with Alexandra Cardenas
xynaaxmue audiovisual noise duo with xname
Canute, a live coding + v-drum project with Matthew Yee-King
Conferences and workshops – I co-founded the international Live Interfaces and Live Coding conferences, and still involved with them in a steering capacity, and am also involved with the FARM workshop, as well as various paper committees.
I edited the Oxford Handbook on Algorithmic Music with Roger Dean

dorkbotsheffield and dorkbotlondon meetings
During 2016 I was sound artist in residence at the Open Data Institute in London, supported by Sound and Music
PhD Arts and Computational Technology at Goldsmiths College, University of London (thesis available)
runme.org software art repository with Amy Alexander, Olga Goriunova, Alexei Shulgin and others
Live Notation with Hester Reeve, funded by the AHRC
A Sound and Music Composer-Curatorship from March 2014-March 2015
Hession/McLean Duo, a free jazz improv project with Paul Hession
Declaration Kriol, giving voice to an avatar with the roots band Rafiki Jazz
Silicone Bake with Jake Harries
Chordpunch recordings with Nick Collins
Weaving code: learning computer programming through pattern and craft, a collaborative project with Becky Parry, Kia Ng, LoveBytes and ArtBoat. This is spun off from a research theme lead by Ellen Harlizius-Klück, who is a project partner along with Dave Griffiths.
Communications with EunJoo, Shin
Research Fellow in Human/Technology Interface and Deputy Director of ICSRiM, School of Music, University of Leeds. Part of the Culture, Society and Innovation Hub.
The Live Coding Research Network funded by the AHRC, co-lead with Thor Magnusson
Weaving codes – coding weaves, Principal Investigator of an AHRC Digital Transformations Amplification project running for 18 months from September 2014.

Alex McLean