Algorave

Algorave logo (a spirangle).

An algorave is an event where people dance to music generated from algorithms, often using live coding techniques.[1] Algoraves can include a range of styles, including a complex form of minimal techno, and has been described as a meeting point of hacker philosophy, geek culture, and clubbing.[2] Although live coding is common place,[3] any algorithmic music is welcome which is "wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive conditionals",[4] which is a corruption of the definition of rave music[5] in the UK's Criminal Justice Act. Although algorave musicians have been compared with DJs,[6] they are in fact live musicians or improvisers, creating music live rather than mixing recorded music.[7]

The first self-proclaimed "algorave" was held as a warmup concert for the SuperCollider Symposium 2012.[8][9] However the idea is said to have originated in 2011, after two live coders (Nick Collins and Alex McLean) tuned into a happy hardcore pirate radio station on the way to a performance.[2] The first North American algorave took place in Hamilton, Ontario during the artcrawl of 9 August 2013. It was followed the next night by an algorave on the Toronto Islands as part of the ALL CAPS festival.[10] (The acts for both events were primarily solos and duos of alumni from the Cybernetic Orchestra.)

Due to the experimental nature of this kind of event, it is quite contrary to normal raves due to the fact that the music can be very stop-and-start and the ingestion of MDMA, ketamine or other illicit drugs does not usually happen. Also, at normal raves, the DJ is usually the main focus, whereas at "algoraves" it is the screen showing the coding going on live.[11]

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  1. ↑ http://www.dazeddigital.com/blog/article/16150/1/what-on-earth-is-livecoding
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wired: Hacking meets clubbing with the 'algorave'
  3. ↑ http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/168153-trip-report-on-dagstuhl-seminar-on-live-coding/fulltext
  4. ↑ Algoraves: dancing to algorithms
  5. ↑ http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/part/V/crossheading/powers-in-relation-to-raves
  6. ↑ http://www.slate.fr/culture/77242/programmation-dj-musique-algorithme
  7. ↑ http://diprosper.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/algoravestuding-the-relation-between-digital-and-analogue-ways/
  8. ↑ http://www.sc2012.org.uk/2012/03/live-algorave-video-highlights/
  9. ↑ Resident Advisor: Supercollider 2012 Warm Up – Live Algorave
  10. ↑ http://www.thegridto.com/blog-post/5-things-you-missed-at-all-caps
  11. ↑ Dylan Wray, Daniel (25 November 2013). "'Algorave' Is the Future of Dance Music (if You're a Nerd)". Vice. Retrieved 25 November 2013.