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Alex McLean
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Non-academic #UKRIFLF research fellow at non-profit org @thentrythis, working on algorithmic patterns (@alpaca). Instigator of @tidalcycles, and co-founder of […] [bridged from https://post.lurk.org/@yaxu on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 22h
Lets be honest, we've all already bought all the arduinos we'll ever need
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d
"Have you ever watched a very tired person typing" - now in stereo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZmuSekEoko
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Sheffield ! Looking forward to playing on the 12.4 iklectik soundsystem at no bounds festival together with @ray + bundy from 2:30pm this Saturday
https://noboundsfestival.co.uk/lineup
Our Lineup Revealed | No Bounds Festival 2025 | Sheffield UK - 10-12th October
What artists are performing at No Bounds Festival? Phase 1 of Our 2024 lineup is out now!
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Graham Dunning @grahamdunning.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d
JO Kazuhiro's Fragmented Music project uses slices of etched plastic as single steps in a vinyl sequencer-oscillator. This talk/demo from the @alpaca conference explains how it works.
I love how visual it is, the playful jigsaw feel to it. Lovely sounds and textures, and the combination of […]
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people.
Plaque "THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End. "THEY SHALL NOT PASS""
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Woo! The @alpaca talks are all up for your viewing pleasure:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxqmZjMvoVzw773-Fo9ajkujFfOThuFOP

Looking forward to catching up on the second weekend, which I missed.

I have forced myself to watch my own Flitter talk back and it is not as bad as it felt […]
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Have you ever watched a very tired person typing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rp1EcMvJLs
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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · 6d
Pre-pre-pre-announcement that around the end of the year/early spring we'll be announcing some new funded residencies, based at our new studio in Cornwall to run around Aug/Sept 2026.

The theme this time is moths and their viruses - as part of a bigger research grant on how viruses and their […]
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d
I became disillusioned with generative AI in 1995.

"Wrote some c code that read in a text file, constructed a frequency table showing how often each letter came after each letter then randomly generated words using the frequency table to determine probabilities.

If you give it a german file […]
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d
I'm trying to improve my tap tempo for working with percussionists, but the more I read about tap tempo algorithms the less I know..

Some people take a mean average, but I guess that only takes the first and last tap into account? I guess then errors get spread out over a longer period..
Some […]
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d
Is it actually possible to delete files from a git repository without breaking existing forks etc?
There's a load of large generated and audio in @strudel's git history. Trying to wipe them from history seems super risky though.. https://codeberg.org/uzu/strudel/issues/1604
Purging big files
There's a lot of big, deleted files in the repo (see attachment). As a result the strudel repo 670MB+ - well over the 250MB limit for code search to work. By comparison, tidal is 165MB. The main culprits are generated javascript files and samples. I propose we purge them from history, hoping th...
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 9d
I will never understand people who when they receive an email with three numbered questions in, only answer half of one of them.
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 11d
2026 tech art conference dates are popping up.. With a lot happening in Europe

* Movement Computing, Montpellier FR - 23-25 Apr (deadline 1st Nov 25) https://moco26.movementcomputing.org/
* New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME) London UK - 23–26 June https://nime2026.org/
* […]
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Dave Griffiths @nebogeo.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 13d
New track made with some samples of galena from Wheal Clinton in Flushing, this was a small mine that was only worked for a couple of years. It was closed in 1858 after being flooded and not considered economically viable. Occasional lumps of mineralised rock can still be found here and there on […]
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 12d
Strong rumours of an end-of-cycle pattern club algorave at Sidney+Matilda Sheffield on sun 14th December 2025
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 12d
@nebogeo It does make me think of the policy brainstorming in The Thick of It
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 12d
Not sure if introducing ID cards will be the slam dunk that Starmer thinks it is, against a far right whose domination of social media was made fully possible by twisting civil liberty issues during the pandemic
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 12d
@froos @julian @adeward You can hear MSG and its excellent compressor on the slub recordings here https://slub.org/
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smoothish sinusoidal waveform
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 12d
Strudel's audio engine is SuperDough mostly by @froos, which is based on SuperDirt mostly by @julian, which is based on 'dirt' a sampler made by me and originally called 'datadirt', but very heavily based on MSG by @adeward

Some of MSG's features got lost in translation, like line hum […]
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 14d
Rumours of a move to a new, bigger + more central Sheffield pattern club studio soon..
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 15d
and one by one, the humane computing orgs pivoted to AI
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 15d
Any reading recommendations for a small collective looking to move from google dependency to self-hosting?
We're collecting some resources here:
https://doc.patternclub.org/s/QCwRlvO1A#
Sysadmin notes - HedgeDoc
# Sysadmin notes # Resources * [A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers ](https://txt.lurk.org/ATN
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TOPLAP @toplap.social.toplap.org.ap.brid.gy · 15d
Are any live coding collectives interested in taking on management of this mastodon server? If so please get in touch with @yaxu !
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The longest and shortest days mark Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day https://web.archive.org/web/20250330163310/https://www.volunteeramnestyday.net/ (ironically, looks like the volunteer running the site ran out of energy) The next Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day is 21st December 2025 *Current responsibility:* Looking after live coding related internet services across three different servers.. The hosteurope, netcup and linode ones here: https://doc.patternclub.org/FNs6V7H8RemGHROmL7B52g?view *Want to keep doing this?*: I think others would do a better job, for a start I don't have enough time to keep it all up to date and secure, or to try to inject energy into e.g. the toplap blog or discourse forum. I'd love someone else to take them on or help sunset them. There are others already helping with some of the services, so they'd have to be one of those people or work with them. *Next steps*: Due to the data involved, it would be great if one or more people with existing responsibility/trust in the live coding community could jump in and take over. Finances aren't a problem, costs can be refunded via the TOPLAP open collective fund which is healthy enough. I'd be very happy to help with the transition!
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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 17d
The longest and shortest days mark Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day
https://web.archive.org/web/20250330163310/https://www.volunteeramnestyday.net/

(ironically, looks like the volunteer running the site ran out of energy)

The next Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day is 21st December 2025 […]
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Phaistos Disco @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · Jan 21
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of divorced mediocre white men
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