I'm very lucky to be a small cog in a larger movement of new music called Algorave. This is dance music made by software algorithms, or to put it more poetically "sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive conditionals," in the words of Alex McLean who coined the term.
I'll be playing some music from this genre live at the following places and times in the days and weeks ahead:
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2014/05/31 - This Saturday at Maker Faire Torino here in Italy.
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2014/06/27 - at the xCoAx conference official Algorave in Porto, Portugal.
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2014/07/04 - at an Algorave in The Loft in Brighton.
I am very excited!
The software I am using was developed inside Miller S. Puckette's Pure Data.
So long USA, you were swell!
I'm very grateful to Ico Bukvic for having me at Virginia Tech, Sofy and Hans for the NYC patching circle, Peter Brinkmann for having me talk at Google NYC, Joe and Theron for LA Crashspace and San Diego, and of course Dirk for putting us up for weeks in his apartment in New York.
We are in Umbria, Italy now, on a very pretty hillside south of Perugia.
I am playing some procedural electronic rave music in Turin next weekend at the Mini Maker Faire. Will post about that and other Europe gig dates shortly.
I have not worn a wristwatch for more than a decade. Feels pretty futuristic.
Here is the source code for my custom Pebble app, which is a forked version of another app that fetches information from my server and displays it to me. Notifications are by a different app.
Of course, the compiler is Richard Stallman's.