The algorave definition parodies UK rave law, swapping 'repetitive beats' for 'repetitive conditionals'

Organisers define admissible algorave music as ‘wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive conditionals’ - a deliberate corruption of the UK Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994’s definition of rave music (‘…repetitive beats’). Swapping ‘beats’ for ‘conditionals’ both claims the cultural space of rave for code-generated music and makes a dry point that algorithmic music is logical/conditional in structure. Crucially, any algorithmic music meeting this criterion is welcome - live coding is common but not required.

Examples

A TidalCycles every 4 (fast 2) call is literally a conditional applied to a repetitive pattern - ‘repetitive conditionals’ in the legal-parodic sense.

Assessment

Recite the algorave definition and explain the legal pun; say what the switch from ‘beats’ to ‘conditionals’ claims about the music’s structure.