Bluedot with OVO Energy is an award-winning festival of discovery at the grounds of a deep space observatory. Set against a backdrop of the iconic Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank, bluedot combines a truly stellar line-up of music with a ground-breaking programme of live science experiments, expert talks and immersive artworks.
An Algorave is a party where electronic music is generated live from algorithms. The word was coined around 2012, initially as a kind of joke, but has since taken hold with Algoraves taking place in over 40 cities around the world.
At an Algorave, the creation of algorithms are brought into the experience of the music itself. This process is opened up by projecting the code on screens in the venue, so audience members can see how the music they hear is being made. This is often complimented by algorithmically generated visuals projected alongside the code.
‘Thinking Out Loud’ is the fifth Data as Culture art exhibition at the Open Data Institute. The exhibition is built around the practice of the 2016 ODI Sound Artist in Residence, Alex McLean, with a group of artists, designers, makers and musicians that he has collaborated with. Openness and processes of making – where any end results are left partly undone – are at the heart of many of the projects on display. The exhibition draws connections between the ways in which humans have captured, encoded and distributed data, and made it meaningful through pattern throughout history. From pre-Columbian Quipu and the ancient art of weaving to computer software environments, it introduces us to creative notions of code, and the ways in which it can carry both language and thought.
The exhibition features artists and makers who are driven by radical intentions to expose the inner workings of the systemic structures we live with. We are encouraged to engage with these ourselves through art, software, folk songs, glitch aesthetics, chance encounters and knitted jumpers.
Artists: Felicity Ford, David Griffiths and Julian Rohrhuber, Ellen Harlizius-Klück, Dan Hett, David Littler, Alex McLean, Antonio Roberts, Sam Meech, Amy Twigger-Holroyd
Curated by Alex McLean and Hannah Redler
SUNDAY 12TH FEBRUARY, FROM 3PM-9PM.
“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. It’s coding as improvisation and experiment…” – The Wire magazine
Reaching over 40 cities over the past couple of years, Algorave is an “algorithmic rave”, where music and visuals come from code, constructed before your eyes. Originally coined in Nottingham, Algorave returns after 6 years, replenished and resplendent with a roster of exciting new algorithmic performances.
£5 on the door, for press/guestlist contact anny@algorave.com
// AUDIO
CALUM GUNN (London) – calumgunn.com
ALGOBABEZ (Leeds + Newcastle) – twitter.com/algobbz
ANNY (Nottingham) — anny.audio
BELISHA BEACON (Leeds) – twitter.com/doriensomething
HEAVY LIFTING (Sheffield) – heavy-lifting.github.io
QIRKY (Leeds) – foxdot.org
LITTLELIFEFORM (Nottingham)
// VISUALS
HELLOCATFOOD (Birmingham) – www.hellocatfood.com
RUMBLE-SAN (London) – rumblesan.com
Algorave est de retour à Montréal.
Soyez les bienvenus pour danser tout en écoutant des sons et des visages qui palpitent.
Vieux Néant
RGGTRN
Shelly Knotts
Marc Matatya
Yaxu
BunBun
Hellocatfood
yecto
co￥ﾡpt
Ask anybody something unforgettable about BUMP 2016, and they’ll probably say the afterparty: rooftop, drinks and tunes. We’re planning something extra this year…
During this year’s afterparty, there will be an Algorave live performance. Experience how the Algobabez, Alex McLean and Antonio Roberts create music and visuals with code, live on stage. One of the Algobabez will be joining us live from Australia and sync her code with the Live Code at the rooftop!
At AlgoMech 2017 we aim to take Algorave to the next level, bringing together some of the best algorithmic (and mechanical) dance music producers and VJs, playing over Sheffield’s fiendish DangerNoise soundsystem, with immersive projections covering the walls of Millennium Gallery. As with the rest of the festival we’ll be mixing mechanisms with the algorithms, showcasing repetitive dance music made from handmade robots as well as live code.
If you’re looking for a new kind of raw, unpredictable night of dirty industrial/techno sounds and truly live electronic music: this is it. No DJ’s, no decks, no producers, no limits. The Algorave brings the cerebral world of live coding and the dirty dancing of raves together to form a new wave in club culture in which performers improvise their music live on stage by writing and rewriting code.
Algoraves embrace the alien sounds of raves from the past, and introduces futuristic rhythms and beats made through strange, algorithm-aided processes. It’s up to the good people on the dance floor to help the musicians make sense of this and do the real creative work in making a great party by providing the energy for the party.
Not a coder? Don’t worry: you don’t have to know code to enjoy an Algorave. Everyone who is into new electronic music and underground raving will feel right at home.
Fierce is excited to be hosting an Algorave on Sat 4th October with leading exponent Alex Mclean. The event will be complimented by visuals from Birmingham local Antonio Roberts and New York artist Jeff Donaldson
“This is no new idea, but Algoraves focus on humans making and dancing to music.”
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The live-coding future fun has so far shown up in places such as Tokyo, Barcelona, Sydney, Sheffield, Toronto, London, Newcastle, Amsterdam and Porto. The Algorave phenomenon is returning to Brighton on July 4th at the Loft.
The Algorave is being held on July 4th from 7pm to 1am at The Loft near the beach in Brighton. The Loft provides a great sound system in a club environment down near the beach front in the center of Brighton. You can find a large selection of restaurants and pubs as well the Brighton train station all within walking distance. More information about the Loft can be found at http://smugglersbrighton.com/
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The live-coding future fun has so far shown up in places such as Tokyo, Barcelona, Sydney, Sheffield, Toronto, London, Amsterdam and Porto. Come the end of the month, some of the scene’s main proponents will converge on the Old Police House in Gateshead.
There’ll be other things popping off around the house too.
Suggested donation £3
Bring Your Own
Algorave breaks down the artificial barriers which many types of music-making software bring, allowing musicians to compose and work live with their music as algorithms. This is no new idea but Algoraves’ focus on humans making and dancing to music leads to a good party.
