Inside the livecoding algorave movement, and what it says about music

Using code for live music has gone from geeky fringe to underground revolution, offering a fresh approach to music and pattern, even for first-time coders. Alex McLean is one of the people at the center of this medium’s growth.

Leave this free software running, and it’ll come up with rhythms for you

Have you ever wanted to enslave your own Aphex Twin, then have him make endless rhythms for you, but worried about care and feeding of a Richard D. James?

Peter Kirn - October 27, 2017

Download Radiohead’s grooves for use in Ableton, for free

Peter Kirn - March 7, 2017

Patterning on iPad is a circular, sample-savvy drum machine

Peter Kirn - August 20, 2015

Free Clapping Music App Teaches You Steve Reich – And Rhythm

Peter Kirn - July 10, 2015

Pyramid is High-End MIDI, Analog Sequencer Gear with Effects [Gallery]

Peter Kirn - February 6, 2015

Polyrhythmus is an Insanely-Great, Free Generator of Rhythms, Arpeggios

- July 22, 2014

Rhythm, Recoded in Plug-ins, Ableton Live: A Conversation with WaveDNA

- April 15, 2014

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