Saturday 29th June, 6.30 – 10.30pm
Kensington and Chelsea art weekend opens with a party of an algorithm-generated DJ set.
Algorave is the live coding movement that makes next-level electronic music. This trend sees live-coding and algorithms create glitchy beats and psychedelic visuals as technology take centre stage at the Museum of Brands, 111-117 Ladbroke Grove, W11 1QT, 29th June, 6.30 – 10.30pm. The Free Live Coding Music Party is created by Kensington and Chelsea Art Weekend an arts festival celebrating arts and culture in West London.
Performing live are musicians Lizzie Wilson (digital selves), Joanne Armitage, Can Ince (Vou), Shelly Knotts, and Miri Kat. Visualists will be Antonio Roberts (hellocatfood) and Guy John (Rumblesan).
The Museum of Brand’s exhibitions are fully open throughout the party and the psychedelic visuals will blend and mesh into the history of 150 years of brands including an exhibition of 1950s sci-fi toys.
About the musicians:
digital selves is a London based musician who uses live coded algorithms of computer synthesis and found sounds: throwing down some TidalCycles code to make glitchy computerised techno. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BRuu_MaA7Q&t=1217s)
Rumblesan is Guy John, a London based, live-coding visualist who’s been illuminating Algorave dancefloors all over the UK. Abstract shapes, shifting hues, and mis-used gifs are all combined to create eye-catching visual mash-ups. https://twitter.com/rumblesan
Vou is a digital instrument maker and programmer based in the UK. He utilises a live-coding tracker to generate rhythmic patterns with drawing sounds from electro and brain dance. The soundscapes that seek hypnotic states, patterns generated by functions and some rhythmic some of the codified tracks, being split up and re-constructed live.
hellocatfood is the alias of Antonio Roberts, an artist and curator based in Birmingham, UK. Using open source software and glitch art techniques he creates live generative glitch visuals. He has provided visuals for the likes of MTV, Com Truise, Blood Sport, Steve Davis, Henry Homesweet and My Panda Shall Fly and at events including SXSW, Supersonic Festival, Barbican, Green Man festival and more. Website: http://hellocatfood.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/hellocatfood Flickr: http://flickr.com/hellocatfood Instagram: http://instagram.com/hellocatfooood YouTube: http://youtube.com/hellocatfood
Shelly Knotts is an improvisor who performs with computers and other humans. Interests in code, data and networks have lead her down strange and diverse musical paths from electroacoustic composition, through jazz and noise music to algorave. She experiments with generative and AI techniques and opinionated algorithms to make music. In 2017 she was a winner of BBC Radiophonic Workshop and PRSF ‘The Oram Awards’ for innovation in sound and music. Mashing SuperCollider synths since 2006, Knotts wrangles beats and bloops out of unpredictable and semi-random noise generators and auto-drum machines.
Miri Kat
AV Noise Artist working with Max/MSP, processing & found sound. Focuses on the creation of unique sounds and immersive multimedia. Works at Novation music. I <3 hacking, cats and mochi
About Museum of Brands
The Museum of Brands explores how brands shape – and are shaped by – people, culture and society. The Museum’s programme includes the permanent Time Tunnel installation and temporary exhibitions, talks and workshops, to create debate and examine the role of brands in history and the modern world. Brands carry meaning. They shape who we are. They help make – and are made by – the world around us. Brands live in our hearts and minds. Some command loyalty. Some are forgotten. Some reflect a time that now seems shocking or surprising. They can trigger nostalgic memories and even change our lives. Every brand tells a story, and the Museum of Brands is here to share them with you.
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ABOUT KCAW
Kensington + Chelsea Art Weekend is an annual celebration of arts and culture in West London. Staged in the summer, the Festival’s vision is to celebrate and promote West London as a cultural hotspot, to celebrate its artistic legacy and abundant creative future. KCAW shines a spotlight on the area’s unexpected and unique cultural variety across a multitude of studios, museums, galleries, exhibition spaces and businesses, attracting local and international audiences to hundreds of events and installations throughout the borough.
Kensington + Chelsea Art Weekend is Supported by the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
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