Algorave

  • (Algo|Afro) Futures

    I’m happy to launch (Algo|Afro) Futures, a mentoring programme for early career Black artists in the West Midlands who want to explore the creative potential of live coding. Live coding is a performative practice where artists and musicians use code to create live music and live visuals. This is often done at electronic dance…

  • Coder Beatz

    Happy to be working with Birmingham Open Media to deliver Coder Beatz, a creative digital programme focusing on live coding for young black kids in the West Midlands. Coder Beatz a new creative digital programme for young black kids aged between 11-15 years old. We are running 4 monthly Coder Beatz workshops between November…

  • Algorave Cafe Oto – March 5th 2020

    On Thursday 5th I’ll be back in London to perform at an Algorave at Cafe Oto I’ll be playing an audio set alongside music and visuals from Deep Vain, Eye Measure, Hortense, Jude Marcella, Mahalia Henry-Richards, Miri Kat, Renick Bell, Seth De Silva, Yaxu, +777000 and hmurd. Tickets are £15 plus booking for and…

  • Algorave at SXSW – 10th – 12th March 2019

    Algorave is heading to South By Southwest! From 10th – 12th we’ll be doing two showcases at the festival: Dancing to Algorithms: How to Algorave This session will discuss Algorave: a global movement focussed on creating dance music through the writing and editing of algorithms. At an Algorave, performers live code and project their…

  • Livecode Festival #2 – Visualists Meetup – 1st September 2018

    On Saturday 1st September I’m organising a meetup for visualists as part of Livecode Festival #2 at Access Space in Sheffield: A session for live coding visualists (at any level) lead by Antonio Roberts (aka hellocatfood), to talk about their tools and how they perform, with focus on Algorave visuals. A core part of…

  • Upcoming Algoraves, June – August 2017

    I’ll be performing at a number of Algoraves this Summer, and rather than make posts for each one here’s a list of ones happening between June – August: Supersonic Festival, 16th June Supersonic Festival is back in Birmingham after a one-year break and I’m curating and performing at it’s first Algorave. Alongside Mothwasp the…

  • Algorave Nottingham, 12th February

    On 12th February I’ll be on visuals duty for an Algorave taking place at Rough Trade in Nottingham as part of the Festival of Science and Curiosity “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…

  • Algorave Birmingham, 3rd December

    On 3rd December I’ll be curating and performing at the Algorave at Vivid Projects. An Algorave is a party where electronic music is generated live from algorithms. The word was coined around 2012, initially as a joke, but has since taken hold with Algoraves taking place in over 40 cities around the world. At…

  • Algorave @ Ravensbourne, 6th May

    On 6th May I’ll be back in London for visuals duties at Algorave @ Ravensbourne. On Friday, May 6th 2016 from 6-11pm Ravensbourne’s new BA Design & Coding course is happy to sponsor the first Algorave@Rave, an audiovisual concert featuring live performers from across the world who elevate coding to an art. Experimental, algorithm-aided,…

  • Newcastle Algorave, 30th April

    A day after the previously announced Algorave in Leeds I’ll be heading furtherer up North on 30th April to do an Algorave in Newcastle. The lineup is rather similar and features the likes of Benoit and the Mandelbrots, Joanne, UIAESK!, and yaxu together with visuals from myself and chez.io. Tickets are only £6.47!