Algorave and live coding are a genuinely global, internationally distributed practice, not a local scene

The Eulerroom Equinox 2020 event showed the algorave/live-coding community spanning the globe: over four continuous days, performers streamed from Brasilia, Detroit, Indonesia, Antwerp, Ukraine, Mumbai, Rome, Miami, and Japan, among others. The point for a newcomer’s orientation is that algorave is not one city’s scene but an international practice with many local nodes coordinating online — ‘business as usual for the live coding scene’. Why this is possible (free/open, low-hardware tools) is a separate principle; the fact here is simply the scope and simultaneity of the participation.

Examples

Eulerroom Equinox (March 2020) ran four days straight as a relay of livestreamed sets from more than a dozen countries — a format the community already had in place, not one improvised for the pandemic.

Assessment

State whether algorave is best described as a local scene or an international practice, and cite one piece of evidence from the Eulerroom Equinox event that supports your answer.