Design: Eva Bevec
DATE: Saturday, 17 May 2025 | 21:00–00:00
LOCATION: Kino Šiška, Ljubljana
PASSWORD: Vstop prost
Adela invites you to dance in the rhythm of open code – here comes Algorave!
This time, at the AV evening of experimental club electronics, coders will program your steps with noises, glitches, breaks and oscilloscopes. Local live coding forces from the Toplap Slovenia node, Blaž Pavlica and Prince Lucija, will be joined on stage by an overseas super-team of performers: algoveteran Shelly Knotts, analogue devices whisperer Ted Davis and relentless music crusher c_robo_. Meanwhile, BubblesFractals, Sarah GHP and Savamala will be providing first-class stimulation for your visual nerves.
Lineup:
BubblesFractals, c_robo_, Ted Davis, Sarah GHP, Shelly Knotts, Prince Lucija, Blaž Pavlica, Savamala
Photos
Photos: Katja Goljat
Artists
BubblesFractals (Amadej Plesničar) is a computer technician who completed studies in horticulture. His artistic journey began in 2017 as a self-taught artist, gradually refining his work across various media. His style is recognised for its cyber-solarpunk aesthetic. He deepened his exploration of generative visualisations as a resident VJ at Klub K4 and collaborated on several projects for the Lighting Guerrilla Festival. Using TouchDesigner, he generates original visualisations in real time that are reactive to music. He is also a member of the BEAM TEAM collective.
c_robo_ (William Rinkoff) is an electronic musician and producer based in Los Angeles. He’s concerned with exploring how expressive a laptop interface can be.
Ted Davis is a media artist / designer / educator from the United States now based in Switzerland. His open-source projects (basil.js, XYscope, P5LIVE, p5.glitch) enable designers to code within Adobe InDesign, render vector graphics on vector displays, collaboratively live code p5.js and glitch real-time from the web browser. He received the Basel Media Art Prize for p5.glitch and the Swiss Design Awards in Media & Interaction Design for P5LIVE.
Shelly Knotts is an improviser who performs with computers and other humans. Interests in code, data and networks have led her down strange and diverse musical paths from electroacoustic composition, through jazz and noise music to algorave. She experiments with generative and AI techniques and opinionated algorithms to make music. She has performed at numerous Algoraves and other live coding events worldwide, solo and with collaborative projects including ALGOBABEZ. In 2017, she was a winner of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and the PRS Foundation’s Oram Awards for innovation in sound and music.
Sarah GHP (Groff Hennigh-Palermo) is a video and media artist focused on aesthetic resistance. Originally from Southern California, she now lives in Berlin.
Prince Lucija (aka Luka Prinčič, any pronoun) is a genderqueer artist with a nearly 30-year history of electronic and computer music production, live performances, DJ sets, club nights, new media art, workshops, performance art, techno-social research, activism and advocacy within various autonomous-tech groups. On their music releases and in live performances alike, they unapologetically move from noise, industrial and abstract sound, sound art, dark ambient and collage to electro-funk and other bassy offshoots of syncopated post-electro. They work at Emanat in Ljubljana, run the boutique cc netlabel Kamizdat, and the fediverse community Sonomu Club.
Blaž Pavlica is a programmer, live-coder and DJ from Ljubljana. He has released experimental and club music, made music for dance performances and a short movie. In the last years, he has been focusing on different kinds of live-coding: visuals with hydra, experimental soundscapes, sometimes with immersive sound, and algorave with SuperCollider. His algorave performance is an improvisation of electronic club music with SuperCollider. He mixes tropes from different genres like breakbeat, techno, acid and jungle at different tempos, coming up with new micro genres on the fly.
Savamala is the artistic name of Joan Queralt, a mathematician and IT educator. Interested in programming and digital culture from a young age, he advocates for free software and documentation. Joan is part of Toplap Barcelona and has participated in the VIU Festival, the Responsive Dreams Digital Arts Festival and the Algorithmic Pattern Salon.