Adrian Ward
Adrian Ward (born 1976 in Bishop Auckland, England) is a software artist and musician. He is known for his generative art software products released through his company Signwave, and as one third of the techno gabba ambient group, Slub. His theoretical approach to generative and software art guides his practice, including contributing to the early principles of the livecoding movement.
Alex McLean
Alex McLean (born 1975) is a British musician and researcher. He is notable for his key role in developing live coding as a musical practice, including for creating TidalCycles, a live-coding environment that allows programmer musicians to code simply and quickly, and for coining the term Algorave with Nick Collins.
Noah Lorway
Noah Lorway is an expert in her field. In 2014, she deservingly won the Robert Fleming Prize for Outstanding Canadian Composer. She moved to the UK from Canada after finishing her studies to pursue a PhD, and now teaches creative music technology at Falmouth University. Her quality live coding sets and attention to electronic composition have brought her to many festivals and Algoraves across the world. She’s recently released bleak, spikey techno tracks which roll seamlessly into light breaths of drone.
Belisha Beacon
Dorien Schampaert performs live code as Belisha Beacon and also teaches Music at the University of Leeds, specialising in electronic and computer music contexts. She studied Art Science at the University of Ghent, Belgium, and majored in musicology. Her research interests include gender and popular music and electronic music. As a member of the OFFAL collective, she contributes her minimal algorithmic live coding sets, which you can listen to below.
Joanne Armitage
Another Leeds-based algorithmic composer, Joanne Armitage makes up part of the OFFAL collective, and experiments with live computerised coding at Algoraves across the UK. Professionally, she lectures at the University of Leeds in Digital/New Media and Computer Music. Listening to her live sets, her stripped-back, basic beats lay foundations for her to build upon using rare, off-kilter sounds.
Alexandra Cardenas
Columbian-born composer, programmer and live coder Alexandra Cardenas has been granted an abundance of residencies since studying Composition at Los Andes University. As a result, her intricate composition springs from her extensive personal exploration of musical behaviour. Residing in Berlin to continue her musical education, her electroacoustic sets have earned attention and deliver endearing melodic delight.
Shelly Knotts
As a data musician, Shelly Knotts’ fascination with interfaces and data improvisation has taken her far. She performs at Algoraves internationally as a solo artist, as part of algo-pop duo ALGOBABEZ and as part of the OFFAL collective. She has a PhD from Durham University in Live Computer Music and, following this, has relocated to Melbourne, Australia, to conduct research exploring improvisational interfaces at SensiLab, Monash University. Her background in research manifests in her energetic live coding performances.