Algoevent Aug. 31 2024

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George is a software engineer at Niantic. He has been livecoding in Sonic Pi since 2017 and has recently created Trane.

Yaxu is the solo project of Alex McLean, who also works as part of collaborations including Slub, CCAI and Canute. He has live coded music since around the year 2000, co-founding the Algorave and TOPLAP live coding movements and creating the free/open source TidalCycles live coding language. He's performed widely including at No Bounds, Sonar, Glastonbury, Transmediale, Bluedot and Shambala festivals. He also directs the AlgoMech festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement. “Yaxu’s polyrhythmic and hyperreal strand of techno is showcased on cuts like Public Life and Cyclic showing that he is not just testing the confines of how music can be consumed but also how genres can sound. A truly forward-thinking in-flux of material” bleep.com

ideoforms (Daniel John Jones), https://soundcloud.com/ideoforms, is a UK-based artist whose work explores new ways in which sound and technology can illuminate our understanding of the world. His BAFTA-nominated practice spans topics ranging from bacterial dynamics to network infrastructures, and has been shown at venues including the Centre Pompidou, Barbican, the Museum of Science and Industry, IRCAM, the Southbank Centre, and the Royal Institution of Great Britain. As one half of Jones/Bulley, this involves creating large-scale sculptural sound installations, exploring forest ecosystems (Living Symphonies, 2014-2023), global ecologies of human-recorded audio (Maelstrom, 2012-2022), FM radio broadcasts (Radio Reconstructions, 2012-), and weather systems (Variable 4, 2011-).

Shankar Saanthakumar is a computational artist and sculptor who is particularly interested in using processes to explore themes of perception, embodiment, and digital-analogue hybrid scenes. He is also a regular performer at Wavetable, a monthly night of experimental music in Edinburgh, where he fuses analogue photography and code to create live coded visuals. web: https://www.shankarsaanthakumar.com/, social media: https://www.instagram.com/shankarsaanthakumar/

Pat Grimm and Reuben Sutherland is a combo of visuals and sound artists working together in quest for new immersive dimension. Pat Grimm uses direct physical liquid manipulation, live streaming from camera showing petri dish display. Reuben Sutherland (sound and visual artist ) uses analog synthesis  to create organic sounds as careful reactions to visuals. The performance is a communication in both directions “sound is watching” and “visual is listening” They take inspiration from each other
and respond in real time to create one off 30-40min journey of expression.

The Printer Jam is a project from Cassiel (Nick Rothwell) and BITPRINT (Evan Raskob) where BITPRINT codes a 3D printer live whilst Cassiel constructs and manipulates filters, delays, and other effects, resulting in sounds from rhymic but gritty, suprisingly danceable techno beats to ambient stretches of sound textures. They just played to a packed house at south London jazz venue The Crypt and this is their last performance before unpcoming hiatus! Here's a sneak preview of The Printer Jam (minus all Cassiel's the fun techno filtering):

Jasmine Rose Federer is a London-based creative technologist, digital anthropologist, researcher, and critic. Working across multiple formats such as game engines, installations, creative coding, and live performance, she develops speculative fictions, algorithms, virtual worlds, and unearths data patterns as invisible forces to extract discourses on technology and its’ relation to the human condition. Find her on Instagram at @jasminefederer @madchen11111

photo by Antonio Roberts

Trampbunny makes music loops and pixel soups with live coding.  Performing music or VJ sets of generative art where laptop is the instrument, typing is the technique, and computer science is the notation.

Ulysses.codes creates live visuals using his node-based software, Nodysseus.

photo by Dan Arves

Louis McCallum’s EverySongIOwn project has one simple aim, to perform music using every song he has owned. As owning music has become an increasingly tenuous pursuit, he often relies on a hard drive of music from his teenage years. Exploring how algorithms can help him map, discover, recombine and regenerate large collections of prerecorded music, expect collage, glitch, noise and some ODB. http://louismccallum.com/ and https://soundcloud.com/skatterbrainz