Algorave

Algorave is dance music generated live with code. Performers write and modify algorithms on stage, in languages and environments such as TidalCycles, SuperCollider and *Renick Bell*'s Conductive, while their screens are projected for the audience under the live-coding ethos of showing one's workings. The resulting music raids techno, footwork, jungle, gabber and breakbeat for its rhythmic materials but subjects them to algorithmic pattern processes: cycles are layered, rotated, reversed and stochastically mutated in real time, so a set is improvised at the level of the system itself and no two performances of the same code are identical.