The workshop explored examples of strudel code which examined the limits and boundaries of dance music, and the kinds of code changes that could be made to push these limits and explore the boundaries between beats and noise. In a simple example, participants explored a basic code snippet that generated beat-based music and looked at simple techniques and small code changes that modulated it between a recognizable beat pattern and more abstract sound. In the second part of the workshop, attendees examined a more developed example from a previous performance and discussed how transitions from beats to noise were achieved in a real performance setting.
