Compassion through algorithms: live coding Algorave giving to Palestinians

They gathered for 24 hours in 70 live coding performances from around the world. Now Algorave has a 55-track album “full of really great music and noise from the live coding/algorithmic music community, fundraising to support Palestinian health, dignity, and culture.” All that plus extra videos from their recent livestream and more. At a time when computer tech is all about extraction, it’s refreshing to see an actual community that’s using code to give.

Algorave, “an international collective of people writing code to make music to dance to, through live coding and other algorithmic means,” has always been an open, international, collective effort. With the genocide ongoing — Amnesty International described it last week as continuing “unabated despite the ceasefire,” as did Scotland’s The National — this remains urgent. It’s vital both in giving material support and in acknowledging the horrors of this reality. (This week, Palestinian-led NGO Al Haq also called attention to those who’ve been disabled during the genocide.)

The music is rich and varied, as is the community — as they say below, some reflect the topic directly, others simply share musical expressions for the cause.

I’ll let the Algoravers describe the fundraiser in their own words, which adds to the 24-hour marathon fundraising effort. Obviously, if you’re reading this after Bandcamp Friday, you can also give to these organizations directly. These is from their full “liner notes” for the release (they also point folks to the Palestinian-led BDS):

Pay as you feel – **Please give generously, within what you can afford.**

Compilation album with all proceeds donated equally between:
* Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), working for the health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees: www.map.org.uk
* A M Qattan Foundation, supporting culture and arts in resisting systematic erasure of the Palestinian people qattanfoundation.org

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Algorave is an international collective of people writing code to make music to dance to, through live coding and other algorithmic means. This compilation includes music from across the live coding and algorithmic music scene. Some contributions reflect on the situation in Gaza and wider Palestine in different ways, others are simply musical contributions to the fundraising cause. This compilation follows a 24 hour stream of over 70 performances from across the world. on 7th December ’25, archived here: archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22stream+for+palestine+november+2025%22

The full 24-hour stream for Palestine, broadcast late last month, is also available on the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22stream+for+palestine+november+2025%22

More live coding, algorithms, and patterns

For more free reflections on algorithms and patterns, check the Alpaca Conference’s video playlist:

And their wrap-up. Obviously, there’s a lot of overlap of this crew and the above stream. But it also gives a vision of a different vision for computing, music, patterns, and agency in a world of big-corporate AI and genocides.

And, of course, algorithm is an Arabic word.