Alpaca 2025

Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts

  • Pastagang

    Pastagang is a radically open, creative group of people making live music and visuals with code. Anyone can join pastagang, to make music and experience ego death together. pastagang.cc

  • MYNA

    MYNA is a Sheffield based artist, community organiser and DJ. She be brings her tastes from her decade of DJing into a live coded format, pushing bass, rhythm and hard drum as her focus.

  • Jo Kazuhiro

    Jo Kazuhiro is a practitioner based in Fukuoka, Japan. He presents his work in a form of art as well as papers with his projects such as The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA, Life in the Groove, Incomplete Niwa Archives, and phono/graph to explore the field of acoustics. In this performance, Jo will perform Fragmented Music and…

  • Interworld Media

    Interworld Media are an independent record label and promoter crew based in Sheffield. For Alpaca, co-founders Zaron Mizmeras and Phoneutrian plan to produce deep, squiggly sounds long into the night. Expect live audiovisual delights powered by biodata sonification, “patterns” and pure chaos. interworld.media

  • Electric Detectives

    Electric Detectives are Nancy Drone (Molly Gunn) and Hue Archer (Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo). Born on the opposite coasts of the US, they now live in Berlin and Scotland, and play together whenever they get the chance. Electric Detectives will create an improvised audio-visual performance centered around Olio, Hue Archer’s new vis tool, which will also…

  • Bundy

    Leeds-based artist and biologist, complements his guitar-centric songwriting with algorithmic instrumentation. After discovering live-coding in March following a software development bootcamp, he performed a genre-blending set as part of the (Algo|Afro) Futures project in Birmingham, improvised live-coded visuals for an experimental rock night at Wharf Chambers, and has frequently collaborated with UK hip-hop artists as…

  • Sarah Heneghan and Timothy Knowles

    Sarah Heneghan is a Sheffield-based drummer and composer with a love for the unusual and the curious. Aside from Power Out, her solo show of drums, electronics and lights, she has been in numerous collaborations, including Nishla Smith, Tim Knowles Quartet, Emergence Collective & wolf peaches. Sarah has received support from Arts Council England, London…

  • Prathap Ramachandra

    Prathap Ramachandra is an internationally acclaimed South Indian Percussionist, having taken his sounds to some of the biggest stages in the world and performed in some of the biggest festivals around the globe. Born and raised in Bangalore – India, Prathap is deeply rooted in Indian Classical Music, in a genre called Carnatic. He had…

  • Digital Selves

    digital selves is the solo project of live coder and experimental musician Lizzie Wilson, whose work melds ominous rave synths, wild arpeggios, and spiralling granular electronics, revealing playful and imaginative sounds. They have performed around the UK and internationally. Some recent works include commissions on Art and AI exploring ritual and collective intelligence; a recent…

  • badcirculation

    badcirculation is a collaboration between Antonio Roberts (hellocatfood) and Maria Witek (mxwx). Working primarily with the open source TidalCycles software, they create electronic dance music with the randomness of algorithmically generated beats. They each bring their diverse musical backgrounds to explore genres including Grime, Footwork, House and UK Garage.Since making their debut in 2019 they…