# Alex Mclean
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alex mclean (born 1975) is a British musician and researcher. He is notable for his key role in developing live coding as a musical practice,
including for creating TidalCycles, a live-coding environment that allows programmer musicians to code simply and quickly, and for coining the term Algorave with Nick Collins.He is an active and influential member of the live coding community; he is a co-founder of TOPLAP and joint leader of the Live Coding Research Network.
Alex is co-founder of the Chordpunch record labelMcLean is also known for his work in software art, winning the Transmediale award for software art in 2002 for forkbomb.pl, a short Perl script which creates a unique image from an operating system under heavy load, and co-founding the runme.org software art repository with Olga Goriunova, Amy Alexander and Alexei Shulgin in 2003, which received an honorary mention in the Prix Ars Electronica netvision category in 2004.
How T-Levels Nurture Local Talent in Sheffield: with Reach Studios and The Sheffield College
This episode of the Sheffield Digital Podcast discusses the benefits and value of hosting work placements as part of The Sheffield College's T-Levels program. The discussions highlight how these placements help bridge the gap between education and the workforce, preparing students for future career…
All 61: Trading Into the New Year!
Happy New Year 2026!
To kick things off for 2026 Steve Clark is back on the show to get us caught up on the OHL including some big trades on Sunday with Kevin He going to Flint, a rare player for player only swap between London and Sarnia, and Steve (McLean) is sad that Alex McLean has been traded…
How did you get here: Interview with Content Designer - Catherine from the Home Office
In this episode we interview Catherine who is a Content Designer in the Automation Centre at the Home Office. She works within a user-centred design team supporting multiple projects aimed at automating processes to make life easier for Home Office staff.
She describes how her brother, a developer,…
Live Coding Music & Algorithmic Patterns W/ Alex McLean
What if you made music live — on stage, in front of an audience — entirely by writing code?
Alex McLean (research fellow, Sheffield; co-founder of Tidal Cycles and Strudel live coding environments; co-curator of Algorave and Alpaca Festival) joins the podcast to explore algorithmic music, live cod…
Talking AI: James Jefferies on ‘Rewilding the Internet’
In this first episode of our Talking AI series, host Sarah Lister is joined by James Jefferies for a conversation recorded on Kinder Scout in the Peak District. Together, they explore the idea of “rewilding” beyond landscapes and into our digital lives, drawing parallels between ecological restorat…
London Scots Podcast with Alex McLean
Alex McLean didn’t chase fame in the usual way. Instead, he turned a love of pop music — and a deep connection to his Scottish roots — into a journey from Portobello’s seaside streets to London’s fast-moving music scene. Along the way, he’s balanced rehearsals, McDonald’s shifts, songwriting camps,…
The Road to Purchase: How Car Buyers Research, Discover and Decide
In this episode of the IAB Australia podcast, host Gai Le Roy, CEO of IAB Australia, is joined by Alex McLean, GM of Marketing at BMW, Gage Milecki, Customer Research and Insights Lead at carsales, and Nicholas Bailly, Commercial Director - Media House at carsales, to explore what the latest Austra…
Talking AI: How the University of Sheffield is raising public awareness of AI using Webtoons and bus stops
In this second episode of our Talking AI series, host Mel Kanarek speaks with Dr. Susan Oman from The University of Sheffield, Centre for Machine Intelligence, about the public-facing Let’s Talk AI awareness campaign seen on Sheffield bus shelters in March and April 2026.
Susan explains that many p…
Ep. 106: Algorave
“Algorave” is a portmanteau of “algorithm” and “rave” that describes an electronic music event where people watch live coding performances. The term was originally coined by Alex McLean, a musician and software developer who created the live coding environment TidalCycles and its offshoot Strudel, …
Talking AI: Richard King and Lorenzo Gordon on the good, the bad and the ugly of AI
How do we cut through the hype and the gloom to really understand the potential impacts of AI?
In this episode of Talking AI, Mel Kanarek is joined by Richard King, who is a product manager at a software consultancy, currently working in the healthcare sector, and Lorenzo Gordon who is a former sof…
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