Lectures by Renick Bell and Alex McLean

Live performances by 𝕭𝖅𝕲𝕽𝕷 · Calum Gunn · Olivia Jack with Alexandra Cardenas · Yaxu · Renick Bell ·

| { EYS is an event which focuses on digital arts and computer music.

This community attempts to understand how micro-cultures of electronic music can be developed over time with an alternative thinking about the use of technology.

K€YS has an speculative vision about possible futures we could inhabit, supporting technology that make us think.

KE¥S presents an open-format lecture, presentation and performance series, sharing knowledge on the following topics: open source, creative coding, immersive multimedia, sound design, DIY and hacked technology, among others.

| { € ¥ $ takes a critical standpoint about the implementation of technology in music and arts:
How could new cultures emerge through the fusion of technology and creativity?
Should we adapt ourselves to the world, or should the world adapt to us?

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Renick Bell
https://soundcloud.com/renick

Renick Bell is a computer musician, programmer, and teacher living in Tokyo, Japan. He is a graduate of the doctoral program at Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan. His current research interests are live coding, improvisation, and algorithmic composition using open
source software. He is the author of Conductive, a library for live coding in the Haskell programming language. Previously, he was a doctoral student at Tokyo Denki University. He has a masters degree in music technology from Indiana University and an interdisciplinary bachelor’s degree in electronic music, studio art, and philosophy from Texas Tech University. He has performed in many countries. He is from West Texas but has lived in Tokyo since 2006; he previously lived in New York City from 1999-2001 and Taipei, Taiwan from 2001-2006.

Yaxu (aka Alex McLean)
https://soundcloud.com/yaxu

Alex McLean is musician, researcher, software artist, free/open source software developer, and organiser of strange events. He is based in Sheffield UK, while researching patterns for the Research Institute of Deutsches Museum, Munich. Alex has been involved with algorithmic dance music since the year 2000, making the free/open source live coding environment TidalCycles, and co-founding the TOPLAP and Algorave movements, Algomech festival, and conferences ICLC and ICLI. He has performed widely including at Sonar, Bangface, STRP, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Sonic Acts, No Bounds, Greenman and Bluedot festivals. His performance collaborations include CCAI, Slub and Canute, performing solo as Yaxu. He releases live coded music on Sheffield’s Computer Club label, including his forthcoming album Spicule.

Olivia Jack
https://ojack.github.io/

Olivia Jack is a programmer and artist who works frequently with open-source software, cartography, live coding, and experimental interfaces. Recent projects include media development for the experimental dance performance Nodos: Cuerpos en Expansión, part of the Festival de Danza en La Ciudad in Bogotá; as well as the Laboratory of Possibilities, a participatory media installation at the Oakland Museum of California.
She is the developer of Hydra, a browser-based platform for networked visuals that is inspired by analog modular synthesis. Originally from San Francisco, she currently lives and
works in Bogotá, Colombia.

Alexandra Cardenas
https://soundcloud.com/tiemposdelruido
https://cargocollective.com/tiemposdelruido/Alexandra-Cardenas

Using open source software like SuperCollider and TidalCycles, her work is focused on the exploration of the musicality of code and the algorithmic behaviour of music. An important part of this exploration consists of the practice of live coding. Having an intense activity as teacher and performer of live coding, Alexandra is among the pioneers of live coding in electroacoustic music and part of the forefront of the Algorave scene. Currently, she lives in Berlin, Germany, where she completed her Masters in Sound Studies at the Berlin University of the Arts.

𝕭𝖅𝕲𝕽𝕷
https://soundcloud.com/bzgrl

Under the name BZGRL, London-born, Bratislava based musician Adam Juraszek produces jaggedly rhythmic dance music, littered with moments of razor-sharp sound design, plaintive
bombed-out echoes of UK bass musicks and tessellated, coalescing polyphonic figures.
While studying music in The Hague, he released his first EP Rendered Environment on international label SØVN Records presenting a blend of algorithmic musique concrète and found-sound collage, with some rhythmic cuts as well. Other activities included a collaboration with Sima Kim (‘Andalusia’), various remixes (e.g. for US/NL artist Fetter), loose tracks and multichannel concerts and multimedia collaborations. After graduating, he contributed the track ‘Koppelen’ (‘sharp and scathing’ - Holly Dicker, Resident Advisor) to the 010 compilation which also featured work from Roly Porter and Fis among others.

Calum Gunn
https://soundcloud.com/calumgunn

Calum Gunn is a Scottish artist/musician working in the fields of computer music, algorithmic composition and live coding. Live performances hinge on the creation of rhythms in live coding software TidalCycles, generating complex patterns and unexpected timbres using algorithmic means. He has released music on the SM-LL, Baba Vanga and FLUF record labels, and runs Conditional, a record label and radio show.