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AlgoMech festival, Sheffield 8-12 November 2017 algomech.com A festival celebrating artists working with algorithms and mechanisms to make music + art Featuring new work by 65daysofstatic, a full-on Algorave, a concert of mechanical music, festival exhibition, kinetic sound art, talks and hands-on workshops. Full line-up and tickets: algomech.com

8pm - 1am, 18 Nov 2016 Millennium Gallery Sheffield algomech.com/algorave/ "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 lots of people ready to dance. .. performers at algoraves respond to each other and the audience in real time, often projecting the lines of code onto the walls as they type. lt’s coding as improvisation and experiment.." - The Wire magazine Algorave is a combination of "algorithms" and "rave", the opportunity to dance to alien rhythms and freaky visuals, all created from code before your eyes. The Algorave scene is fast-growing around the world, with Sheffield a strong centre, building on its fine roots in electronic music history. For the AlgoMech Algorave we are teaming up with Millennium Gallery Live Lates, and mixing in some mechanical techno to spice up the algorithmic electronics. We'll be bringing together algorithmic and mechanical artists from UIQ, PC Music, Computer Club, Rephlex and NTS radio on one bill..

AlgoMech - algomech.com 12-19th November 2016 Millennium Gallery, Access Space, DINA and SHU AlgoMech is coming to Sheffield City Centre for the first time from the 12th-19th November 2016. A week of performances, talks and workshops will showcase creative processes and celebrate making in performance. This new festival brings together a diverse range of art forms and mixes them up to present a creative mosaic of machines, live coding, music, dancing and power tools. From clog dances that mimic industrial looms to techno music created with mechanisms built during the performance; cellos are turned into computers; textile patterns become musical compositions - this hand-crafted programme features performances and events that aim to challenge and inspire. Audiences will also have the opportunity to get involved in workshops exploring how to make visuals and music with text, or learn to play a traditional Basque instrument, the txalaparta. (It’s not as hard as it sounds!) Alongside this, an arts-research symposium will be hosted by the Sheffield Institute of Arts, including talks and performances on the theme of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement. The symposium will be chaired by Thor Magnusson and Chris Kiefer from the University of Sussex, with a keynote speech from Godfried-Willem Raes. Venues: Millennium Gallery, Sheffield Institute of Arts (Hallam University), Access Space and Dina. Ticket prices vary. Some events are free. Full details can be found at: algomech.com Facebook: facebook.com/algomech/ Twitter: @algomech AlgoMech is funded by Sheffield Year of Making and Arts Council, England. Organised by FoAM Kernow and LoveBytes, in collaboration with Millennium Gallery, Access Space, Sheffield Hallam and Sussex Universities and the British Science Association. Powered by Dangernoise soundsystem.