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Alex McLean

@slab.org

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Researcher + musician based in Sheffield UK slab.org Co founder of algorave, toplap, algomech, pattern club, strudel, tidalcycles Part of Then Try This thentrythis.org Exploring algorithmic patterns algorithmicpattern.org

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Alex McLean @slab.org · 21/11/2025

Live code stream for Palestine, ~96 performances over 24 hours. Starts at midnight UTC eulerroom.com

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Alex McLean @slab.org · 20/11/2025

London ! I'll be playing at the last ever @algorave.com at Corsica Studios this Wednesday 26th Nov before they close the doors for good, amongst a top multi-generational line-up of live coders + co. Come down if you're nearby! ra.co/events/2280905

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Alex McLean @slab.org · 30/08/2025

Less than two weeks to go until Alpaca festival Sheffield + we just added @jamesholden.bsky.social to the club night full of pattern-based music on the 13th Sept. It's going to be a special one and if you are nearby I think you should definitely join us. 2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/

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Alex McLean @slab.org · 27/07/2025

Alpaca - Festival of Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts happening 12-14th September, Sheffield UK! If you're curious about patterns in music, visual art, juggling, weaving, braiding etc then come and enjoy concerts, talks and workshops and an algorave: 2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/

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Alex McLean @slab.org · 12/04/2025

Sheffield ! Algorave happening this Friday 18th April, come and enjoy some top notch handmade algorithmic dance music buytickets.at/patternclub #algorave #sheffield

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Alex McLean @slab.org · 26/11/2024

A GPS trace of cycle couriers, plotted in 2005 by @openstreetmap.bsky.social to fundraise their plan to make an open map to encourage Ordnance Survey to release their UK maps under an open license. In the end they just mapped the world.. This was supposed to be signed, they must have missed mine..

black trace of london roads by cycle couriers, black ink on white paper

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Alex McLean @slab.org · 22/11/2024

I've been thinking a lot about this (partly) analogue modular system for 3D printing by Maas Goudswaard.

3D printer arm squirting out plastic patterns with a system in front of it that looks like a hand-made modular synthesiser with a lot of knobs and wires.

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Alex McLean @slab.org · 15/11/2024

On the way back from a very fun two weeks working with Kristina Andersen and Pei-Ying Lin in Eindhoven, exploring live interfaces for weaving in the tc2 loom..

waffle weaving pattern that gets disrupted depending on how irregular your weaving rhythm is

a khipu inspired weaving interface where you describe patterns as shifting Euclidean rhythms as knots in string

structural weaving pattern consisting of floats, double weave and tabby

a series of experiments including cellular automata and bitfields, plus some patterns designed for data capture

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Alex McLean @slab.org · 11/11/2024

If you're near Sheffield (or know anyone who is), we're doing a winter school in Jan/Feb on patterns across heritage and contemporary technology. Totally free for participants. Open call: patternclub.org/2024/10/29/a... We'd love to bring together a range of experience levels + backgrounds !

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Alex McLean @slab.org · 16/12/2023

Still a few tickets left for Pattern Club Live in Sheffield this Sunday www.tickettailor.com/events/patte...

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