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title: Alex McLean
episode: 67
buzzsproutId: 17461605-67
recorded: 2025-02-04
published: 2025-07-07
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Mike and Andres speak to Alex McLean who created the TidalCycles
system for electronic music - implemented in Haskell of course. We
talk about how Alex got into Haskell coming from Perl, how types
helped him think about the structure of music and patterns, the
architecture and evolution of TidalCycles, about art, community and
making space for new ideas, and lots of things in between.
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+ [Alex's homepage](https://slab.org/)
+ [Alex's Mastodon feed](https://post.lurk.org/@yaxu)
+ [Alex's YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@yaxu/)
+ [Alpaca - Algorithmic Pattern Catalogue](https://algorithmicpattern.org/)
+ [Then Try This](https://thentrythis.org/)
+ [Goldsmith’s University](https://www.gold.ac.uk/)
+ [Perl 6 in Haskell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugs_(compiler))
+ [Geraint Wiggins](https://ai.vub.ac.be/team/geraint-wiggins/)
+ [Alex McLean's MSc Thesis: Improvising with Synthesised Vocables, with Analysis Towards Computational Creativity](https://slab.org/2007/12/10/msc-thesis/)
+ [Dave Griffiths](https://www.rsh-duesseldorf.de/institute/institut-fuer-musik-und-medien/lehrende-mitarbeitende/griffiths-dave): [Scheme bricks](https://fo.am/activities/scheme-bricks/)
+ [Alex McLean: Hacking Perl in Nightclubs](https://www.perl.com/pub/2004/08/31/livecode.html/)
+ [TOPLAP - The home of live coding](https://blog.toplap.org/)
+ [Bol processor system, inspiration for rhythmic cycles](https://bolprocessor.org/)
+ [Laurie Spiegel: Manipulation of Musical Patterns](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laurie-Spiegel/publication/266316606_Manipulations_of_Musical_Patterns/links/5bd8b7e34585150b2b92049f/Manipulations-of-Musical-Patterns.pdf)
+ [TidalCycles](https://tidalcycles.org/)
+ [strudel.cc (reimplementation of TidalCycles) in Javascript](https://strudel.cc/)
+ [Graham Hutton: Programming in Haskell](https://people.cs.nott.ac.uk/pszgmh/pih.html)
+ [Paul Hudak: Haskell School of Expression](https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/hudak/SOE/)
+ [Conal Elliot Functional Reactive Programming](http://conal.net/papers/icfp97/)
+ [Open Sound Control protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control)
+ [Supercollider](https://supercollider.github.io/)
+ [Konnakol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konnakol)
+ [Tidal Cycles in Python](https://github.com/tidalcycles/vortex)
+ [Algorave](https://algorave.com/)
+ [Penelope: A Study of Weaving as Technical Mode of Existence](https://penelope.hypotheses.org/]) [Penelope at Deutsches Museum](https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/forschung/forschungsinstitut/projekte-und-forschungsbereiche/projects/detail-page/penelope)
+ [MQTT protocol](https://mqtt.org/)
+ [International Conference on Live Coding 2025](https://iclc.toplap.org/2025/)