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MDPE.18:4.2 - Music: an Algorave brief uses a pinned community source

An organizer must decide what an introductory workshop and event should preserve from the documented Algorave line while allowing local variation.

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Blackwell et al., Live Coding: A User’s Manual (2022), sections “What is Live Coding?”, “Partial Histories”, and “Algorave”Live coding is heterogeneous; Algorave is a coined rallying genre with changing local practices and communities.Partial practitioner-scholar history; no one sound style, local enactment, global prevalence, or continuation result.Present the event as one local realization of a heterogeneous practice.
Algorave guidelines, pinned commit 24b2ad5, README lines 1–24Most acts should use code-based or algorithmic generation and expose the process; every act need not be live coded or project a screen; other approaches can be mixed.Community event-programming MethodDescription, not evidence that receiving Agents perform Work under a Method described there or that an event team uses the guidance.Set minimum workshop and programme constraints without imposing universal screen projection.

The evidence supports a qualified event brief. Performer capability, code–sound control, room and projection setup, audience relation, and actual event Work require direct Methods and later observations.