The idea behind Algorave, an art and dance party this Sunday night in Bushwick, is to create music while programming in real time in front of an audience. Algoraves seem to be an exercise of live ...

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Some 100 people on Saturday gathered for a Halloween-themed algorave in the Mission District. Photo by Yujie Zhou, Oct. 28, 2023. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest ...

In the back room of a bar in the South London suburb of New Cross, there’s a revolution happening. Or maybe it’s not so much a revolution as a de-volution, a rolling back to the backend of music ...

I never thought I’d be caught in the middle of an argument about coding languages at an EDM concert, but there I was. The room full of musical nerds quietly bobbing their heads to glitchy electronic ...

Welcome to Scene Report where we highlight significant, underground scenes and subcultures across the globe. Picture this: You walk into a club and see someone in front of a computer. Behind this ...

Sarah Davis, better known in the music community as DJ_Dave, has only been live coding music for about two years, but the skills have launched a career. That’s right — when Davis takes the stage, she ...

Part experimental technique, part musical composition, "live coding" is still a little-known technique for the general public. Its principle: create music in real-time by programming computer code ...

“In terms of algorithmic music, the more you look at it the less it really has any meaning,” says McLean, getting down to the semantics of what constitutes the genre. “Because any sort of musical ...