Dave will talk about running an independent research organisation in Cornwall, why weaving is critical for understanding technology, sonic kayaks (as musical & scientific instruments), and a couple of projects made with Aphex Twin.The event will be part of the Electronic Music, Computing and Technology end of year course show, in the St. James Hatcham Building on the Goldsmiths campus.

Tuesday 21st March 2023, 6pm - 8pm Access Space @ Event Central, 20-26 Fargate (opposite Marks and Spencers), Sheffield, S1 2HE Free sign up hereA talk/performance with our first Algorithmic Pattern research resident Paola Torres Núñez del Prado at Sheffield Pattern Club, who will introduce us to patterns in Andean informatics through textiles and sound. Paola is an e-textile and sound artist, who integrates electronic sensors into her handmade textiles, including in Khipu (ancient Andean practice of recording data in knotted structures) as well as weaving.Paola will talk us through some of her works, with some …

An evening of pattern-based music performances, from instrumental minimalism to hand-made machine music to full-on algorave, put together by Then Try This research fellow Alex McLean in collaboration with Sheffield-based arts organisation DINA, with financial support from Arts Council England.Either join us live in Sheffield (pay-what-you-can-afford tickets available here), or watch online:Line-up (timings are in UTC, and are subject to change):20:00 Emergence collective21:00 Loula Yorke21:40 SDGORDON22:20 Tyger Blue22:40 Hellocatfood23:20 Heavy lifting / Digital Selves / Yaxu B2B2BThis is a live performance event counterpart to Sheffield Pattern Club, a monthly …

A meetup for people interested in ‘algorithmic patterns’, in live coding and other creative practices.For this first meet we’ll take a beginner-friendly look at TidalCycles (https://tidalcycles.org), the free/open source live coding environment for live coding and algorithmic music, and in particular the newly released version 1.9. The session will be lead by Alex McLean, the instigator of the TidalCycles project.Feel free to bring a laptop to get hands-on with TidalCycles. Please try to install TidalCycles in advance, but help will be on hand if you have problems getting it going!We’ll also take a quick look …

Algorithmic pattern can be described as the use of rules and well-defined instructions to produce and break symmetries, through combination and transformation operations. However, “pattern” is often used as a pejorative term. Transdisciplinary scholar Andrew Hugill notes that for some composers, being accused of pattern-making implies that you have nothing original to say and fall back on mechanical formulae. With this workshop, we aim to rescue the term from its somewhat deprecatory usage in a number of arts disciplines, and disentangle algorithms from any false sense of unfathomable obscurity or complexity. This workshop focuses on how to characterise and define …

Among her multiple talents, Bekah Smith is a professional juggler with 20 years experience, including touring and teaching around the world and co-founding her own circus. Passing juggling patterns is her speciality, using the siteswap juggling notation system to generate and experiment with new patterns from mathematical formalisms. In this hands-on talk, Bekah will introduce us hands-on to juggling siteswaps, and give insights into some of the mathematical, creative constraints that underlie them Part of the Algorithmic Pattern online talk series.For more info (including date/time in your timezone) and signup: https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/bekah-smith/

Sarah GHP is a video artist and javascript developer based between Brooklyn and Berlin. She often takes her algorithmic visual art to the stage, creating it live with her handmade javascript framework La Habra, including as part of the audio/visual live coding band Codie.For the fifth instalment of the series, Sarah, a dialogue aficianado, will be joined by Alex McLean for an interview-style chat about her work and ideas — including what analog video art has taught her about approaching the digital; historic video cruft; and the perfection of imperfection.Part of the Algorithmic Pattern online talk series.For …

Antony Brown will be sharing highlights from the ongoing Smogoff project at Harnessing the power of community engagement in research, part of the Peninsula Forum for Environment and Human Health 2022 at The European Centre for Environment and Human Health (ECEHH).

Manjunath B C is a highly accomplished musician touring performances worldwide, including of the mridangam percussion instrument. On-line, he is perhaps best known as a strong proponent of Konnakol, the Carnatic tradition of reciting intricate vocal rhythms, via his (often viral) videos demonstrating the topic. This online talk will take the form of a live discussion with algorithmic musician and pattern researcher Alex McLean, exploring some of the time-twisting and indeed mind-bending structures of Konnakol.Part of the Algorithmic Pattern online talk series.For more info (including date/time in your timezone) and signup: https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/manjunath-b-c/

At one time, simulations of crafts were rare, and practitioners could claim a kind of innocence. With the MetaVerse, AI, and other computational invasions of every aspect of life, a decolonial approach to craft grammars is desperately needed.At one time, simulations of crafts were rare, and practitioners could claim a kind of innocence. With the MetaVerse, AI, and other computational invasions of every aspect of life, a decolonial approach to craft grammars is desperately needed.Part of the Algorithmic Pattern online talk series.For more info (including date/time in your timezone) and signup: https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/ron-eglash/