I never thought I’d be caught in the middle of an argument about coding languages at an EDM concert, but there I was. The room full of musical nerds quietly bobbing their heads to glitchy electronic ...

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In the back room of a bar in the South London suburb of New Cross, there’s a revolution happening. Or maybe it’s not so much a revolution as a de-volution, a rolling back to the backend of music ...

The idea behind Algorave, an art and dance party this Sunday night in Bushwick, is to create music while programming in real time in front of an audience. Algoraves seem to be an exercise of live ...

Part experimental technique, part musical composition, "live coding" is still a little-known technique for the general public. Its principle: create music in real-time by programming computer code ...

Sarah Davis, aka DJ_Dave. Sarah Davis, better known in the music community as DJ_Dave, has only been live coding music for about two years, but the skills have launched a career. That’s right — when ...

"How might electronic music sound in a post human future? Robert Barry enlists the help of Holly Herndon, James Bridle and Conrad Shawcross to explore radical new directions in computer music, from ...

Algorave lies at the intersection of electronic music and geek cultureA small group of coders are reinventing the live music performance scene by putting computer ...

Can the machine speak? we might once have asked. Can it sing? The question is an old one; as old as Ada Lovelace, the Enchantress of Numbers herself; or even as old as the first clockwork androids to ...

Alexandra Cárdenas, often working under the CyberID tiemposdelruido, also sees live coding as something revealing, where it frees music “aesthetically and technically from consumerism.” As a composer ...