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Algorave Pittsburgh

Pittburgh's first official algorave!

"Algorave is made from “sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive conditionals“. These days just about all electronic music is made using software, but with artificial barriers between the people creating the software algorithms and the people making the music. Using systems built for creating algorithmic music and visuals, such as IXI Lang, puredata, Max/MSP, SuperCollider, Extempore, Fluxus, TidalCycles, Gibber, Sonic Pi, FoxDot and Cyril these barriers are broken down, and musicians are able to compose and work live with their music as algorithms. This has good and bad sides, but a different approach leads to interesting places.

This is no new idea, but Algoraves focus on humans making and dancing to music. Algorave musicians don’t pretend their software is being creative, they take responsibility for the music they make, shaping it using whatever means they have. More importantly the focus is not on what the musician is doing, but on the music, and people dancing to it"

Audio
Lil Data [PC Music, UK] - Mangled hyper-pop stylings for booty wiggling.
"This guy is pretty good" -A
https://soundcloud.com/lil-data

Calum Gunn [Conditional, UK] - Bone chilling post-rave synth stabs with fractured percussion to boot.
"Mark Fell if he previously had a successful breakcore alias" -A
http://www.calumgunn.com/

Kindohm [Conditional, MN] - US live-coding don & potential cheese curd master of Minneapolis.
"lake master. grizzled ancient. iron range hermit." -A
http://kindohm.com/

BLÆRG [Mozyk, MN] - Return of our favorite Pittsburgh live coding nemesis.
"Just intriguing enough to put up with" -A
https://blaerg.bandcamp.com/

Spednar [Cosmic Sound, PA] - semi-tasteful snare stylings and sounds of failed computation.
"80 people once walked out during this performance" -A
https://spednar.bandcamp.com/

Visual:
Char Stiles
“serves up leftover 90s techno Utopianism for lunch”
http://charstiles.com/

REW - Rachel Wagner is a Pittsburgh based visualist and videographer with a sensibility for lush and ethereal textures. Her work provokes a sense of childlike exploration surrounding the delicate pairing between auditory and visual output.
http://www.rachelrew.com/Video

Event Info:
Sept 16th 2017
Peirce Studio - (805 Liberty Avenue)
Doors 8:30 / Music 9:00pm
$10 Admission

About Cosmic Fest
cosmic fest is a four day long-weekend of both dance and experimental oriented electronic events coordinated by an array local promo crews. the inaugural fest is sept 14-17 2017, in pittsburgh, pa.

Related Entities: Spednar Rew
Tags: Electronic Experimental Livecoding