AN INTRODUCTION TO LIVE CODING & MUSIC

Alex McLean

The Hollis Room (Upper Chapel), Sheffield
Friday 13 February 2026, 11.00am

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Join us for a workshop on making musical patterns with live coding led by Alex McLean. Whether you’re a complete novice or simply curious about the world of coding and music, this event offers a unique opportunity to explore creativity through sound. No prior experience is necessary, just bring your curiosity and a desire to experiment!

Alex will introduce the open-source live coding platform that he co-instigated, Strudel. It enables complex musical rhythms and patterns to be created and explored with simple code.  

The workshop is suitable for beginners with no experience in coding or music-making, exploring patterns by listening to and adjusting just a line or two of code.  

Participants should bring a laptop (or similar device with a web browser  – as long as it can make sounds with https://strudel.cc/)

Part of our Percussion, Pattern & Primes weekend. 

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Alex McLean live coding at a music event

Alex McLean

Alex McLean is a musician and independent, UKRI-funded researcher working on pattern-based music, textiles and dance. He has pushed forward the ‘live coding’ approach to algorithmic music over the past two decades, including co-creating the popular live coding environments Strudel and TidalCycles, and the worldwide Algorave movement for algorithmic dance music. He is based in Sheffield where he collaborates on Sheffield Pattern Club and the Alpaca festival of algorithmic patterns.