Great projects, works, people in intersection of programming and art/music? [closed]

Question

In a recent question I was introduced to the work of André Michelle, which blew me away. What other great people or works do you know in the fields of art and music? As someone with a love for math/programming and art/music I'd love to know more about people using sophisticated (or not so sophisticated) techniques to produce creative things. The software used can be anything from Max/MSP, Flash to simple C code or Assembler. Pointers to forums, blogs, newsletters and similar are very appreciated as well.

Answer 1

The processing "language" (by Ben Fry and Casey Reas) and electric sheep (the work of Scott Draves) are both well known examples.

http://processing.org/

http://community.electricsheep.org/

I should also mention the port of processing to the HTML canvas by John Resig:

http://processingjs.org/

Answer 2

The "Demo scene" has a whole bunch of very creative procedural visual effects and music (link: http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?order=views ). The goal of a "demo" is to provide the most visual effects within a specific file size ( i.e. 1kb ).