Algorave
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| General Information | |
| Related genres | Electronic music, computer music, generative music, electronic dance music, techno |
| Location | Worldwide |
| Related events | Music festival, rave, electronic dance music festivals, circuit party |
| Related topics | Live electronic music, VJ, livecoding |
An Algorave is an event where people dance to music generated from algorithms, often using live coding techniques, and short for "algorithmic rave."[1] Alex McLean of Slub and Nick Collins coined the word "algorave", with the first event to be held under that name taking place in 2012.[2] It has since become a movement, with algoraves taking place around the world.[3]
Description
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.[4]
Although live coding is common place,[5] any algorithmic music is welcome which is "wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive conditionals",[6] which is a corruption of the definition of rave music[7] in the UK's Criminal Justice Act. Although algorave musicians have been compared with DJs,[8] they are in fact live musicians or improvisers, creating music live, usually by writing code, rather than mixing recorded music.[9]
At an algorave the computer musician may not be the main point of focus for the audience and instead attention may be centered on a screen that displays live coding, that is the process of writing code, so the audience can not just dance but also to see the result of programming.
History
The first self-proclaimed "algorave" was held in London as a warmup concert for the SuperCollider Symposium 2012.[10][11] However the name was first coined in 2011, after live coders Nick Collins and Alex McLean tuned into a happy hardcore pirate radio station on the way to a performance in the UK.[4] Since then, Algorave has been growing into an international movement, with algoraves having been held mainly in Europe and Asia;[12] and few events in Australia[13] and North America.[14][15][16][17]
Community
Algorave is an international movement with a community of artists and technologies. See the Algorave category page.
References
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External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons- Algorave.com
