Deadmau5 mistakes sonic pi code for strudel, news at 11 https://youtu.be/ane7B2Q8jbs?si=IzAdRtqS0DAmS4jl&t=120

Stumbled across this again

Pretty useful summary of European train delays in 2025. Grim reading for German trains. It seems the coach is often the better option these days :/ https://chuuchuu.com/2025wrapped

Hi @tidalcycles + @strudel people! If you'd like to support + encourage software and community development of Strudel, Tidal and sibling projects, now would be great time! https://opencollective.com/tidalcycles This software is shared as free/open source with love, and created and supported […]

I still agree with this tbh

I've been fascinated by this new 'pyramid tala' via B C Manjunath, trying to get my head around it for months now x x - x - - x - - - x - - - - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DV3RPS2-iZw Just found an example using this tala on the veena: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DLVBt5FzkJ5/ A great […]

The blogerati have discovered algorave (via @soundclamp) https://interconnected.org/home/2025/12/11/live

7 years ago, I got a room full of people in Sheffield to sing the red flag, o tannenbaum and o christmas tree simultaneously, while I played with the chords in @tidalcycles (they all have the same tune) merry xmas!

Over the last year my fedi feed has gone from aloof disinterest in LLMs to what feels like 50% anti-LLM diatribes. I kind of miss the old days!

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

A new epistemic tool has arrived in the @patternclubsheffield lab!

!!!Album release!!! "220 under adit (techno from mine waste)" All proceeds will go to the Panzi Foundation, supporting victims of sexual violence in conflict mining areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an illegal exploitation that ends up filling our laptops and mobiie phones. Please […]

Thinking about making a new live coding language that I don't talk or write about until I've performed with it for a year. #normaliseintrospectivecreativity

Shocked to hear of the antisemitic terrorist attack in Sydney. Full power to all affected including the passing fruit shop owner who selflessly managed to unarm one of the attackers.

I've done a bit of website spring cleaning, update the music bit (was over 10 years out of date), added some publications, updated contact info etc. There's about 360 blog posts on there that I should go through, and make more browseable.. https://slab.org/

New to warm @strudel , you can use 'delta' to do things based on the duration of events […]

<3 techno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfCRS08D4uA&list=WL&index=34

I'm calling the prototype crystal 'log synth' done. Three natural semiconductor voices, each with their own filters, 4 vactrol sequencers and 3 single transistor gates with their own sequencer - actually quite a lot packed in here I realise... Tested in the […] [Original post on post.lurk.org]

Live coding from scratch stream is live, currently from Bogota https://live.eulerroom.com/

I really want to be interested in this "dark forest theory of the internet" but just listened to their podcast about the economics of it and they just went on and on about using substack and discord as if that was somehow revelatory? I couldn't get the point of what they were saying at all. Then […]

Happy to have two collaborations on this fundraising compilation - one with instrumental musicians Sarah Heneghan on drums and Zebedee Budworth on hammer dulcimer, and another as "epiploke" with Heavy Lifting aka Lucy Cheesman. Both fully improvised from nothing in the moment. Is it ok to say I […]

Just released "Compassion through algorithms volume III" - a huge 55 track album full of really great music and noise from the live coding/algorithmic music community, fundraising to support Palestinian health, dignity and culture. Buy it today (name your […] [Original post on post.lurk.org]

Another live coding stream this weekend! This one with from-scratch live code performances, to celebrate 15 years of the from-scratch movement. Grab your slot here: https://eulerroom.com/

What do people think about the "dark forest theory of the internet" ? https://www.ystrickler.com/dftrevisited/

I want to get into bobbin lace, I got a second hand pillow and bobbins and am enjoying surfing youtube, but not sure how to navigate all the tutorials etc.. Anyone with advice for a good book or something, or even better in a similar position and fancy some peer learning?

According to the US copyright office, copyright doesn't extend to purely AI-generated material. I'm not sure if vibe coding can count as 'purely AI-generated', but it's an annoying thought that e.g. GPL code can be turned into uncopyrightable code via the AI meat grinder. I also keep returning […]

#pastagang have sampled Lucy and me talking about them on the pattern club radio in the intro to this lovely album https://pastagang.bandcamp.com/album/working-in-cursorland

With at least one powerful acceleratorist ai corporation looking to fund/partner with open source live coding projects, I wonder if anyone will take the bait

Despite all the talk of 'algoraves' over the past couple of decades there has been a distinct lack of videos showing 1/ code projected 2/ person writing that code live 3/ people dancing to said code .. it's definitely happened but there hasn't been a lot of documentary evidence. Seems to be […]

Spotted today in a freezing cold outdoor toilet block that smelled of old cigarettes

We're making an live code/algorithmic music release in aid of humanitarian relief in Palestine. We're collecting recordings over this weekend, to release it on (Bandcamp) Friday. If you'd like to join please DM me and I'll share the upload info, thanks!

"Very sad day for crow enthusiasts" says #pastagang […]

Took a while to find this, and it's affected me somehow. A hidden and forgotten place that could instead be an important destination to explore what it means to be part of human society. In 1967 an oil tanker sank off the coast of Cornwall called the Torrey […] [Original post on post.lurk.org]

The Alpaca festival (on algorithmic patterns in the creative arts) aftermovie and photography now live on our website ! https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/

@yaxu In the post AI world, brave language designers will scramble to add anti-AI features to fend off the bots from their userbase. The foreleader of the proglang resistance will be genderscript, a fork of typescript that started off by renaming the type keyword to`gender.` […]

I wonder if programming language innovation will drop off post-AI. Like there's not much point learning a new language if you're not programming it directly, and LLMs know less about them. You'll just reach for the language with the most (non-LLM generated) training data which will always be the […]

Had a lovely jam + chat with Sarah Heneghan and Zebedee Budworth of Emergence Collective for this month's @patternclubsheffield radio show on Resonance FM https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/pattern-club-radio-23-november-2025-emergence/

If you ever wondered what people thought about live coding 21 years ago you can read the livecode mailing list archive here: https://slab.org/tmp/livecode.txt There was more moaning about AI hype in 2004 than I remember..

I had a great time performing with top percussionists B C Manjunath and Matt Davies, with a project developed through short residences at IRCAM Paris, state51 London and Sheffield. The show at Crucible Sheffield went great and we would love to tour it next year. The project brings together […]

I found a nice big projection screen in our new pattern club studio that wasn't retracting, the plastic end caps had worn/broken inside. I emailed the manufacturer on the offchance and they were happy to find some replacements that they sent out for the cost of postage. Now it works perfectly! […]

Sheffield Pattern Club meetup at gut level on Thursday! I'll be doing an intro to South Indian konnakol rhythms https://gutlevel.co.uk/whatson/0x2ojm8z3khi0h62aleh6ds7176qg2-5maeh-nds8e

A fantastic initiative to bring grass rots local venues in England into self-ownership, including the awesome Gut Level in Sheffield - 1 day left on the crowd fund https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/own-our-venues

runme.org was a software art repository I made with Amy Alexander, Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, launched in early 2003 https://runme.org/ It came from the software art scene mainly defined by the "readme" events, including the readme/runme/dorkbot city camp http://readme.runme.org/ […]

"Kṣaṇa = the time taken for a needle to pierce through hundred lotus petals stacked one on top of the other."

My @incolico 2025 performance/lecture video is now up here: https://iclc.toplap.org/2025/catalogue/performance/geometry-of-code.html

Thinking about self-hosting a chat system but it's really weird how militaristic the websites are ! E.g. rocket chat https://www.rocket.chat/ and mattermost https://mattermost.com/ We want a chatline for our club not a resilient zero-trust nerve centre for AI-driven stochastic carpet bombing

24 hour live coding stream for Palestine, 22nd November UTC - slots now open for registration: https://eulerroom.com/

Switch Angel is at it again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M

Diving into final rehearsals for this gig in Sheffield this Saturday with the incredible percussionists B C Manjunath and Matt Davies https://musicintheround.co.uk/events/sounds-of-now-konnakol-drum-kit-code/ Come over if you're nearby !

I've got so many things queued up to do when I'm less busy. SO MANY