Algorave, live coding, or whatever you want to call it or whatever you're doing with computery creativity -

We haven't seen it become a genre, at most an umbrella of different genres.
It may end up becoming homogenised though. Its a possibility.

I think how this happens is through the logic of neoliberalism - the notion of there being 'top artists' - the concept of 'success' - the goal of 'making money'.
(can provide more detail on why I think that is)

So maybe the values of the scene as we know it, embodied in things like 'no headliners', 'bad code only', quality NO energy YES and general yay vibes, will help protect against it becoming 'one sound' or 'bland'?

What do you think?

I think we can go further and break down the notions of performer and audience, we've seen this begin to happen at AlgoRhythms.
next one btw is here: https://luma.com/1db23uki
I feel 'pushing back' against unhealthy norms even if gently is a powerful force.

AlgoRhythms · Luma

And we're back! For the second one of the year! Expect lovely vibes, hand coded sounds and visuals, dancing, chilling, and the unexpected 😆 From 6:30pm we…

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Personally I'm hoping the #liveCoding #AlgoRave movement will demonstrate what Dr. Ethan Hein states here
https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2025/ai-slop-and-musical-creativity/
"but what about lowering technical barriers to creativity? The thing is, those barriers are one inch tall...The obstacles to musical creativity have nothing to do with equipment or money or education or anything else, they are one hundred percent psychological."
AI slop and musical creativity

Next week, my NYU graduate seminar on technology in music education is supposed to start talking about AI: large language models, prompt-based generators, stem separation and so on. I am not feelin…

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