🎶💻 Music × Code Summer Camp is your chance to turn your laptop into a live instrument and learn how to create music and visuals using code. Open to young people aged 18 to 25, particularly from marginalised backgrounds.
Participants will gain hands-on experience in creative coding, working with open-source tools and collaborating with mentors and peers. By focusing on live coding and digital sound design, the summer camp will empower participants to see technology as a medium for self-expression.
Throughout the programme, participants will be encouraged to collaborate and develop their own Algorave duos.
At the end of the programme, participants will have the opportunity to deliver their own Algorave to family and friends and continue to collaborate with Peckham Digital. We will be offering two paid internships to help shape our upcoming festival.
📆 Date: Every Tuesday, 10am – 6pm
🗓️ From: 22nd July – 26th August
📍 Where: The Hub, 42 Bonar Rd, SE15 5FB
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Antonio Roberts is an artist, musician and curator based in Birmingham, UK. His practice is concerned with how the misuse of digital technology impacts people of colour and other marginalised groups.
His recent work focuses on the depiction of Black people in digital media, ranging from stereotypical misrepresentations in early video games to modern algorithms and AI codifying existing biases.
His (Algo|Afro) Futures mentoring programme teaches live coding software as a way to address how Black people have been under/mispreresented in digital art and electronic music, despite being pivotal to its development.
He is currently learning game development, with the aim to explore how immersive environments can be used as a narrative storytelling device. He is also working on his debut EP, created using a combination of live coding software and hardware synthesisers.
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Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/hellocatfood
Github: https://github.com/hellocatfood
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blog: https://syntelang.github.io
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Daniel is a live coder who performs regularly as SYNTƏL8 at various EMOMs, algoraves and other associated events. As a passionate advocate for the scene he also facilitates monthly London meetups and the open slots AlgoRhythms event in Peckham.
Having studied audio, electronics and synthesis informally for over two decades, Daniel has built up a wealth of experience both on and off stage and wholeheartedly believes these topics can and should be accessible to anyone who is curious. A philosophy which he has extended to create a simple language and platform called Syntə which is tailored for live performance and ease of use.
There is no such thing as a 'dumb' question - those ones are often in fact the best!
James Walker (collapse) is a creative technologist based in London. He organises London Pattern Club (@londonpatternclub), a craft group and social space for people interested in algorithmic creative practices.
James first discovered live coding in 2022 through a tutorial from Harry Murdoch (@h.murd). Since then, James has performed at events for fakedac~, Sheffield Pattern Club, Peckham Digital, Noughty Fingers and Algorave London.
James uses Tidal Cycles and Ableton for live coding performances. He has used p5.js and openFrameworks for live visuals, and has produced e-textile controllers for live performance.
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mah[alias] is the live-code moniker of London-based artist Mahalia Henry-Richards. Intrigued by the concept of play and 'messiness' in the world of computation - she enjoys experimenting through the medium of live coding embracing all the unexpected twists it offers. With a background in visual live coding and years of experience as a classical musician, Mahalia now merges these two worlds, venturing into the realm of algorithmic music creation.
Website: https://alias.mm-hr.com/
Joana Chicau is a designer and researcher — with a background in dance. She researches the intersection of the body with the designed and programmed environment, aiming at widening the ways in which digital sciences is presented and made accessible to the public.
Her practice and exploration interweaves web programming with choreography — from the making of online platforms to performances and workshops. In parallel she has been participating and co-organizing events involving collaborative algorithmic improvisation and discussions on digital equity and activism. She is a PhD candidate at the Creative Institute at the University of the Arts London.
Links:
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.･ﾟﾟ･ joana.art
.･ﾟﾟ･ are.na/joana-chicau
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Alex has been exploring algorithmic patterns as a live coding musician since around the year 2000. He's active across the digital and software arts, including founding the TidalCycles and Strudel live coding systems, and co-founding the TOPLAP live coding and Algorave algorithmic dance music collectives, and the AlgoMech festival. He has performed widely including at Sonar, Transmediale, Glastonbury, Ars Electronica, and No Bounds festivals. He currently holds a four-year non-academic research fellowship, exploring algorithmic patterns as part of the non-profit open access lab Then Try This.