Algorave
8pm-2am, 01 Sept. 2018
DINA, 32A-34 Cambridge St, Sheffield S1 4HP
Probably the world's first two-room Algorave, with an international line-up of top notch live coders and algorithmic producers, including Renick Bell + Chiho Oka, Atsushi Tadokoro, Akihiro Kubota, Linux Lewis, Yaxu, Alexandra Cardenas, LiveDog Inc., Heavy Lifting, ALGOBABEZ, Qirky, Neil C Smith, Innocent, Thorsten Sideboard, Alejandro Albornoz, tedthetrumpet, Digital Selves + more ..
"The scene at an algorave is often what you'd expect from any good techno night - a dark room, engaging visuals. a decent, bass-heavy speaker set-up, and lots of people ready to dance. .. performers at algoraves respond to each other and the audience in real time, often projecting the lines of code onto the walls as they type. lt’s coding as improvisation and experiment.." - The Wire magazine
""Live coders write computer programs live, while the programs generate their music, but the focus is on people dancing and seriously enjoying themselves" - Dazed and Confused
".. not so much a revolution as a de-volution, a rolling back to the backend of music production, where the possibilities of the encoded information inside computer software is open and endless" - Mixmag
Algobabez
The quintessential algorave duo representing Leeds x Newcastle with quantised noise for dancing.
Chiho Oka and Renick Bell
Chiho + Renick are experimenting with minimal synth patterns over 160 BPM rhythms. Renick generates rhythmic data using his Conductive live coding system and sends it to Chiho, who uses it to trigger synths and note patterns live-coded in SuperCollider.
Hellocatfood
Algorave visualist stalwart bringing intensive pixels and also a rumoured musical premiere...
TYPE
Working collaboratively in a shared text buffer each member of The Yorkshire Programming Ensemble will construct portions of music-generating code before interacting with the work one another has left behind. By making and unmaking each other’s code TYPE will work both together and against each other in the exploration of sound and rhythms.
Neil C Smith
AMEN $ Mother Function
One sample, one function – a live-coded, single function demolition of one of the most frequenctly sampled loops in modern music. This performance is both an essay in conceptual minimalism, and an attempt at filling the dance floor with the aid of one wavetable and a little maths. The silent $ in the title (also used in the code), is in tribute to Gregory C. Coleman, the original drummer of the Amen break, who died homeless and broke.
Deerful
Emma will be debuting a set of brand new, unreleased songs in the ixi lang live-coding environment, mixing live vocals with algorithmic rhythms.
Thorsten Sideb0ard
Thorsten will be live with Soundb0ard, writing pattern generating algorithms which control Soundb0ard instruments, including subtractive, fm and granular synths, and a sample library of jump-up rave anthems.
Atsushi Tadokoro
Intensive audio/visual dancefloor electronics, live coded with TidalCycles + openFrameworks.
Simon Blackmore
slow signals
This performance will explore live coding through physical rhythm. Using a sound from a cajon as a computer interface, rhythms will be converted to text and manipulated and transformed by software creating a form of live interactive music where the actions of the performer and computer become blurred.
Alexandra Cardenas
TidalCycles x Hydra A/V
Alexandra Cardenas aka Tiemposdelruido live coding teaming up with Olivia Jack (the creator of top visuals live coding system Hydra). Alex in person, Olivia beaming in from Bogota..
innocent
innocent
A melodic fusion of beats and sounds influenced by electronic dance music and drum’n’bass, live coded in FoxDot.
Garlic Hug
A new duo collaboration between Alessandro Altavilla and Helen Papaioannou, based in Sheffield, UK. Garlic Hug aims for maximum intensity through a minimal aesthetic. They like frenetic splintered beats, chunky synth riffs, interrupted drones, skronky sax, found tapes and private field recordings. Using a mixture of improvisation and various compositional strategies, ideas appear long enough to draw you in before they are interrupted by musical hiccups.
Akihiro Kubota
The Well-Tuned Livecoding Piano
Live Coding Improvisation using Tidal-midi and Pianoteq (Physically Modelled Acoustic Piano)
Livedog, Inc.
Generative music will result from an unlikely attempt to prove the Riemann Hypothesis.
Uiae
Robot Folk Dance Experience
The Robot Folk Dance Experience is an improvisation with agents in a two-dimensional space connecting based on proximity. Each type of agent moves in a specific manner and has a specific function. The music emerges between manual configurations of agents and the composed structure dissolving through their inherent movements.
co(n)de Zero
Textural manipulation of vocal samples, underpinned with minimal glitchy polyrhythms...
Dimitris Kyriakoudis
lnfiniteMonkeys
lnfiniteMonkeys are at it again, typing their nonsense to no end. They're surfing the big temporal wave, twisting and bending it to their amusement, shaping it into all sorts of funny structures and crashing it back down again. Just a handful of waves, filters, and random numbers is all they have; but they are happy, for all they care to do is play them.
BIT-PRINT
BITLIP (the livecoder) is using LivePrinter to make livecoded music with 3D printers. LivePrinter is a live, immediate system for combining the design and 3D printing of objects. Livecoding is used to control manufacturing precisely and procedurally with real-time flexibility. It brings improvisation and intuition to the act of making new computational forms, and the playing of strange hardware-based music. A live video feed of 3D printer printing will accompany an audio-visual coding performance that also controls the printer.
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