Alex McLean is a researcher based in Sheffield UK, working on “algorithmic patterns” including in music, textiles and dance. He has been working professionally in creative technology since the year 2000, including as live coding musician and software artist, festival curator/producer, and research fellows. Alex created the popular free/open source live coding environment TidalCycles, and co-founded the TOPLAP live coding and Algorave movements, and the AlgoMech festival. He also co-edited the Oxford Handbook on Algorithmic Music, and co-authored Live Coding: A User’s Manual published by MIT Press. He now holds a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, hosted by nonprofit independent lab Then Try This.
