Unearthing Utopia

Reflections on two community archaeology projects, CAER Model Village Project led by artist Paul Evans and Middlefield’s Utopia organised by Professor Carenza Lewis and Dr Ian Waites at the University of Lincoln.


A film by Paul Evans, Jon Harrison and Viv Thomas 2017

Dead Plants and Living Objects - Rie Nakajima and Pierre Berthet

A collaborative sound installation / concert by sound artists Rie Nakajima and Pierre Berthet who have been creating various ways to vibrate things so that their acoustic shadows dance around the space. 


Recorded 12 November 2016 at Algomech 2016, Sheffield


AlgoMech symposium keynote: Godfried-Willem Raes - Robots get better, people don't

Godfried-Willem deserves the title of "music maker" in the broadest and deepest sense, composing music, making music happen by hosting hundreds of concerts per year, and making dozens of robots that make music. His robot making has become particularly well known in the UK, in part through his collaboration with the prolific producer of Cornish Acid, Aphex Twin.


Recorded 13 November 2016 at Algomech 2016, Sheffield

Toni Buckby and Sean Cotterill

Performance documentation recorded at Algomech Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement 2016.


Recorded 12 November 2016 at Algomech 2016, Sheffield

Becky Stewart - The emergence of e-textiles

Becky discusses rise of e-textiles and how it could change the way we interact with the world around us, including during live performance. This talk was awarded the annual Daphne Oram Lecture. 


Recorded 12 November 2016 at Algomech 2016, Sheffield

Tim Shaw and John Bowers - Walk Write Repeat: Soundscape Machinery

Shaw and Bowers follow instructions to create citywide walks, gathering sensor-data, physical materials, images and sound recordings as they go.  They work with their gathered materials and resonate them through modular synthesisers, self-made circuitry, archaic algorithmic systems and other music and image machines.


Recorded 12 November 2016 at Algomech 2016, Sheffield

Tom Mudd - Contingent Events

A large red button is placed in the audience. Audience members are invited to push whenever they like. Pushing the button instantly and completely changes the nature of the performance system, selecting from a wide range of pre-made performance systems.


Recorded 12 November 2016 at Algomech 2016, Sheffield

Joana Chicau - A Webpage in Two Acts

A live coding performance/demonstration: an assemblage of audio-visual and graphic experiments combining principles of choreography (post modern choreographic language) with the formal structures of coding (web code/languages, such as JavaScript). The performance structure is divided in two Acts and two Pauses, and comprehends physical movement.


Recorded 12 November 2016 at Algomech 2016, Sheffield

Clapping a Sine Wave - Simon Blackmore

A new piece using a computer interface limited to a binary input, where sound = 1 and silence = 0. During a 12 minute performance, Simon attempts to clap out the binary information to produce a digital sine wave.


Recorded 12 November 2016 at Algomech 2016, Sheffield

Ryan Kirkbride - Ctrl and Return

A performance of live coding; generating music through the use of a programming language. It starts with a blank screen and code is written to describe sonic events which are heard while the program is constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed throughout.


Recorded 12 November 2016 at Algomech 2016, Sheffield

Augmented Cello - Alice Eldridge and Chris Kiefer

Performance documentation recorded at Algomech Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement 2016.


Recorded 12 November 2016 at Algomech 2016, Sheffield