The Algorithmic Pattern Salon is a space dedicated to exploring creative possibilities rooted in patterns. Patterns can find their origins in ancient and ancestral forms, such as weaving, embroidery, juggling, and musical composition, as well as in contemporary patterning techniques seen in computing. Algorithmic Patterns Salon focuses on human-created algorithms, where intricate and unexpected results can arise from the combination of simple elements or rules. The salon includes theoretical talks, workshops and a from scratch programming session in which we embrace the creative challenge of starting with a blank canvas and have just nine minutes to craft a small piece.

Within this context, the "Experimental Concerts" at Phonos offer an exploration of various performative practices that include sound, visual and corporal patterns.

Algorithmic Pattern Salon is an event organized by toplap bcn, Algorithmic Pattern Salon Team and Axolot.cat

Program

Decolonizing the pattern. Body exploration and performance of Citlali Hernández and Jon James Barousse.

On the edge of the pattern. Sound performance by Iván Paz.

Development of an algorithm with SuperCollider as a translation of patterns of water ripples into sine waves. Sound performance by Maia Francisco.

Not Binary Code, a Lisbon-based collective affiliated with the Toplap Network, presenting live coding performances led by Violeta and Esquilo.

Toplap Barcelona

Toplap Barcelona is a collective that practices and promotes live coding as a sound and visual creation technique, generating a technological appropriation through the use and development of free and open software focused on generating its own relationships and discourses.

Col·lectiu Axolot

Axolot is a collective operating at the intersection of technology and artistic expression. They create custom, research-based code for their projects, artistic collaborations, and commissioned works. They also design physical pieces for live performances, exhibitions, and installations. Their core values are rooted in open-source principles and the idea that technology should benefit communities.

Alex McLean

Alex is a researcher and practitioner investigating algorithms in pattern-making from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing from a background in computer science, creative technology design, music performance, live coding, and textile research. He has held postdoc positions at the University of Sheffield, University of Leeds, and the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. He now works as part of Then Try This organization, working on his "Algorithmic Pattern" project, funded by a 4-7 year Future Leaders Fellowship.

Alex is active across the digital arts, co-editing the Oxford Handbook on Algorithmic Music and co-authoring Live Coding: A User's Manual published by MIT Press, as well as co-founding major festivals, conferences, and movements including AlgoMech festival, Algorave, TOPLAP, and the International Conferences on Live Coding and Live Interfaces.

He also regularly performs live coded music himself, using the popular free/open source TidalCycles environment that he created.

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