Algorithms + Rave: Algorave is bringing the best in live-coded electronic dance music, live algorithmic visuals and experimental robotics to Lost Horizon HQ as the launch of Control Shift's ~ Feeling Machines Weekender.

At Algoraves artists and electronic musicians make futuristic rhythms and beats using live algorithmic processes. All code is projected - so you can see how the artists make sound and visuals live. Since starting in 2012, Algorave has established a large global community that encourages experimentation, creates original and open source software tools, and most importantly fun dance music events!

We bring together live-coding artists from across the UK alongside installations from Bristol based digital artists including a live experimental robotics prototype from Air Giants.

Featured artists include: Heavy Lifting, hellocatfood, Yaxu, Rumblesan, Joana Chicau, David Matunda.

“.. 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

“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

“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

https://www.control-shift.network

https://algorave.com

Algorave artists:

hellocatfood
hellocatfood is the alias of Antonio Roberts, an artist and curator based in Birmingham, UK. For his live performances he uses software including Pure Data to explore the creative potential of algorithms, glitches, and feedback loops. He has provided visuals for the likes of MTV, Com Truise, Blood Sport, Steve Davis, Renick Bell and My Panda Shall Fly and at events including SXSW, Supersonic Festival, Barbican, Green Man festival and more.

http://hellocatfood.com
http://instagram.com/hellocatfood
soundcloud.com/hellocatfood

Heavy Lifting
Heavy Lifting is Lucy writing live code for a different dimension. For fans of: minor deities, cats in ancient ruins, JRPGs & pigeons. Lucy will be using a string synth and a Volca Nubass to generate a dramatic and overblown algorave soundtrack

Recent releases:
TRVE YORKSHIRE KVLT ENSEMBLE 'SVLF TVTLVD' out now on Don't Drone Alone: https://dontdronealone.bandcamp.com/album/svlf-tvtlvd
Heavy Lifting vs Graham Dunning 'hurlothrumbo' out now on Fractal Meat Cuts: https://fractalmeat.bandcamp.com/album/hurlothrumbo

YAXU
Yaxu is the solo project of Alex McLean, electronic musician and researcher based in Sheffield UK, working on “algorithmic patterns” including in music, textiles and dance. As a musician he has performed widely, including at Sonar, No Bounds, Glastonbury, Sonic Acts, STRP, Transmediale and Ars Electronica festivals. Alex created the popular free/open source live coding environment TidalCycles, and co-founded the TOPLAP live coding and Algorave movements, the AlgoMech festival of algorithmic and mechanical movement, and Pattern Club events in Sheffield.
https://slab.org

Joana Chicau
Joana Chicau is a designer and researcher — with a background in dance. She researches the intersection of the body with the designed and programmed environment — aiming at widening the ways in which digital sciences is presented and made accessible to the public. Chicau co-organises and participates in events involving collaborative coding, algorithmic improvisation, discussions on digital equity and activism.

David Matunda
Is a web developer and digital artist with a creative code practice currently focused on exploring the visual outputs of algorithms in live code performance.

rumeblesan
rumblesan has been a regular visual performer on the UK algorave scene, but has recently decided to make a shift towards audio, focusing on rhythmic sequences within broken sounds, distortion and digital noise.

Air Giants
Air Giants are a creative robotics studio in Bristol, making a new kind of gigantic joyful soft robot from fabric, air, and computation.
https://www.airgiants.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/airgiantshq

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