"The Death of Algorave"

By xname http://xname.cc/ and yaxu http://yaxu.org/

xname + yaxu, audacious art space sheffield, 15th June 2013

Live code improv with Digital Selves recorded 4th Feb 2022 in the alpaca lab Sheffield

LZYX (digital selves + yaxu) live in the alpaca lab

Binaural recording of my ambisonic set on the 16.4 Amoenus soundsystem at IKLECTIK London
 https://iklectikartlab.com/live-coding-spatial-sound-alex-mclean-digital-selves-eye-measure-more/

LiveCodingSpatialSound @ IKLECTIK London


d8 $ every 5 (density 1.5) $ sound "bass3:2*2? [bass3:8 bass3:5 bass3:8]?"
   |+| gain "1.2"
   |+| shape "0.3"
   |+| speed (every 3 ((*2) &lt;$&gt;) $ every 2 ((/2) &lt;$&gt;) "1.44")

d10 $ every 3 rev $ slow 4 $ (spread' striate "16 32 12" $ sound "[pad:5]")
   |+| speed (superimpose ((*1.5) &lt;$&gt;) $ (superimpose ((*1.01) &lt;$&gt;)) $ ((+1) . (*0.01)) &lt;$&gt; sine1)

d1 $ (every 2 degrade $ stut 2 0.5 (1%3) $ sound "bd [bd bd*4?]")
   |+| speed "[1,1.01,2 3]/2"
   |+| accelerate "-1"

d2 $ slow 2 $ sound "[[bd bd?]*4, future*2]"
   |+| accelerate "2"
   |+| speed "1"
   |+| gain "1.4"
   |+| shape "0.9"

d3 $ jux (iter 4) $ every 2 (slow 2) $ slow 4 $ striate 16 $ sound "[breaks125 breaks165]"
   |+| gain "1.6"
   |+| speed "2"
   |+| accelerate (((*(-16))) &lt;$&gt; (slow 8 $ sine))

d4 $ superimpose (iter 8) $ sound "drum drum:1?"
   |+| shape "0.9"
   |+| gain "1.1"
   |+| accelerate "-1.5"
   |+| speed "1.1"

d6 $ every 3 rev $ slow 4 $ (striate 64 $ sound "atlast")
   |+| shape "0.97"
   |+| speed (superimpose ((*1.5) &lt;$&gt;) $ (superimpose ((*) &lt;$&gt; (((+1) . (* 0.01)) &lt;$&gt; (slow 4 $ saw1)) &lt;*&gt;)) $ ((+1) . (*0.01)) &lt;$&gt; (slow 3 sine1))
   |+| gain "0.75"

d7 $ every 3 rev $ slow 4 $ (striate 64 $ sound "[atlast:1 ! atlast:0 ! atlast:2 ! atlast:2 !]/8")
   |+| shape "0.97"
   |+| speed (superimpose ((*1.5) &lt;$&gt;) $ (superimpose ((*1.01) &lt;$&gt;)) $ ((+1) . (*0.01)) &lt;$&gt; sine1)
   |+| gain "0.9"

d9 $ jux (iter 8) $ striate 16 $ sound "breaks125"
   |+| gain "1.7"


At last

A quick studio edit of a live coded improv at onedotzero's #dotdotdot v2

Dotdotdot unmastered

In one ear/speaker, you hear the sound of a washing machine. In the other, you hear supercollider estimating the pitch of said sound and synthesising a sound with said pitch. Made during a digital media labs residency - http://www.digitalmedialabs.org/diary-entry/washing-machine-watching-and-listening

Pitch following a washing machine

Live recordings of Ashley Pomeroy, Adrian Ward and Alex McLean at the Foundry of legend (http://foundry.tv/). Ade and Alex were later to form Slub (http://slub.org).

Evidence:
http://www.ntk.net/1999/11/05/#EVENT_QUEUE
https://web.archive.org/web/20000123184143/http://www.vxslab.org/


Arp And Alex 1

Yaxu - Live in Algorave Leeds

recording from the desk
visuals were by miri kat but you can't hear that
video with crowd atmosphere here: https://youtu.be/y49FotCORaU

live @ algorave sheffield 1st sept 2017


d1 $ cat [(slow 3 $ striate (sound "bd" ~~ speed "0.5" ~~ pan "[1 0 0.5]") 32), (sound "bd cr/2 bd" ~~ speed "30")]
  ~~ pan "[1 0]"

d2 $ sound (every 3 (density 3) "sn cr/2")
  ~~ speed "20"

d3 $ every 3 (0.25 <~) $ sound ("future [~ bd/4] cr/9 ~")
  ~~ speed "2"

d4 $ cat [(slow 4 $ striate (sound "cr/5" ~~ speed "0.5" ~~ pan "0.25 0.75") 16),
          0.5 <~ (slow 4 $ striate (sound "cr/1" ~~ speed "1" ~~ pan "0.25 0.75") 8),
          0.5 <~ (slow 4 $ striate (sound "cr/5" ~~ speed "0.5" ~~ pan "0.25 0.75") 16),
          0.5 <~ (slow 4 $ striate (sound "cr/1" ~~ speed "1" ~~ pan "0.25 0.75") 32)
          ]

d5 silence

d5 $ slow (3) $ sound "[bd [~ ~ bd] bd bd, cr/5 rm rm]"
  ~~ end "0.20"
  ~~ speed "1.5"
  ~~ pan "0"

d6 $ slow (3) $ sound "[bd [bd [~ sn/2 ~] ~] bd bd, rm cr/4 rm]"
  ~~ end "0.25"
  ~~ speed "1.4"
  ~~ pan "1"

d7 $ slow 6 $ every 3 (density (1%3)) $ sound (sample <$> "jvbass jvbass [jvbass [jvbass jvbass]]" <*> "[1 6]")
  ~~ speed "[1.3,6.2,2.3]"

d8 $ slow 6 $ every 4 (density (1%3)) $ sound (sample <$> "jvbass jvbass [jvbass [jvbass jvbass ~]]" <*> "[1 6]")
  ~~ speed (every 2 ((*2) <$>) "[3.9,1.5,1.3]")


Another cog

Live at BEAM
http://www.beamfestival.com/open-call-2012/

Live BEAM 2012

Two exploratory improv recordings from the first collaborative session with Shu Jiang (Guqin / Chinese zither) x Alex McLean (TidalCycles, live in the Slaboratory, Sheffield UK. Supported by Access Space.

Second Session

First Session

Rounding off a 2 hour intro to TidalCycles, the Young Minds Together group decided to compose and record a theme song with it, here's the noisy result..

Recorded at the Unity Centre in Rotherham, 23rd Nov 2019

With support of British Science Association

yaxu

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