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Maria Carla Ariadne Showalter

CS student at Barnard College, Columbia University — Hellenic Studies minor. I build things at the intersection of engineering, creativity, and music. I'm interested in code as language, language as system, and music as the place both collapse into something you can feel. Greek American, based in NYC.→ more on my thoughts

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Emailm.showalter@columbia.edu GitHubMariaareadne1 LinkedInmaria-showalter
Currently

Building Filo, a location-discovery mobile app. Operating Committee at Almaworks Accelerator. Hosting Algoraves at Columbia.

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May 2026
Essay · Languages · Code · Creativity
On code, creativity, and languages
I grew up speaking Greek, French, Mandarin, Spanish. I played violin since I was five. When I took AP CS, something clicked — code is just another language, and the interesting part is what you say with it.
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2026
Product · Startups · Building
I built a social discovery app from my dorm room. Here's how it actually happened.
The best discovery tool I had was a screenshot of someone else's group chat. That's why I built Filo — from Echo Link to Numi to Loci to a working React Native app on Supabase.
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May 2026
Music · Code · Web Audio
From the Chaconne to Web Audio: building a synth that does its own music theory
Ten years of violin, then a line of code that made a sound. This is about TONUS — and why Bach and FM synthesis are the same lesson.
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Spring 2026
Live Coding · Algorave · Community
Algorave & Workshop: bringing live coding to campus
We hosted Columbia's first Algorave. Five people in the crowd got up and tried live coding themselves.
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Spring 2026
Generative Art · Algorithms
What happens when you let a grid compose your music
A cellular automaton is three rules. From three rules emerge music that no one wrote.
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Coming soon
What Hellenic studies taught me about programming languages
Photos
35mm film · drawing · painting
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sunset over Diamond Head, Oahu Columbia University steps, NYC rocky cove, Hawaii Liliha Bakery, Honolulu figure by window light beach and Rabbit Island, Oahu
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DJ Deck
a little view into how I like to create
mix · match the BPM · steer the filter · blend the decks
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Deck A
select a track above
— BPM
100
AB
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Deck B
select a track above
— BPM
Pick a track from the dropdown above each deck
Drag platter to scratch
BPM + Sync — match tempos
Low Pass — roll off the highs
Crossfader — blend A into B
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Videos
live coding · algorave · music
Algorave · Live Coding · Columbia
Algorave at Columbia — full recording
Music performed by writing and modifying code in real time, projected for the audience to see.
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Live Coding Session
Live coding with Strudel — session 01
First in a series of recorded sessions. Being edited now.
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Tutorial
Getting started with live coding
Beginner walkthrough of Strudel — from first pattern to performing live.

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