[zhodge]

As someone who's completely ignorant to the concepts behind algorave, could anyone more experienced outline the helpful prerequisites to know before I experiment with a tool like Wavepot?

I assume it's mostly the (basic?) physics of sound waves that I'd need to understand?

[jarmitage]

You don't need to know anything about the physics of sound or programming, to get algoraving with Tidal or Ixi Lang

http://yaxu.org/tidal/

http://www.ixi-audio.net/ixilang/