Performing at:
Club night
Saturday 13th Sept 2025
7:30pm-late
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Kourosh Kanani and Matt Davies
Kourosh Kanani and Matt Davies are redefining the boundaries of contemporary music by weaving the rich traditions of Iran, India, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan into a modern jazz tapestry. Through Kourosh’s deeply expressive guitar work and Matt’s innovative use of electronics and rethinking of the drum kit their duo creates a powerful dialogue between important ancient cultural legacies and cutting-edge soundscapes. Their music is both a tribute to the heritage of these diverse regions and a bold exploration of their modern relevance, offering audiences a mesmerizing experience that transcends borders, time, and genre. It’s blend of tradition and innovation, rooted in jazz yet unbound by convention.
Kourosh and Matt will perform at our opening concert on Friday 12th September 2025.
Performing at:
Concert
Friday 12th Sept 2025
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Agoston Nagy
Agoston Nagy specializes in algorithmic art, creating code-based artistic visualizations, physical installations, and real-time sonification using code. In addition to his artistic endeavors, he conducts research exploring grassroots communities, decentralized networks, autonomy, and resilience on the liminal web.
Having conducted international workshops in computational art, systems thinking, and creative coding practices across the EU, US, Canada, and Asia, Nagy has shared his expertise on a global scale.
Formerly a researcher at Kitchen Budapest Media Lab and a lecturer at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, his works have been showcased at prestigious institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Centre for Media Art Karlsruhe (ZKM), EXPANDED.ART Gallery Berlin, Ludwig Museum Budapest, and the Mutek Festival, among others.
Agoston will be speaking about “entangled rituals” – artistic visualizations of randomness, chance and ritual heuristics using creative coding and quantum algorithms. He will also be leading a procedural drawing workshop – introducing generative art and algorithmic thinking without the use of computers.
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Workshop Leader
CADS theatre, Sheffield
Conference Speaker (Sheffield)
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Epiploke
Epiploke are a collab between Lucy (aka Heavy Lifting) and Alex (aka Yaxu), live coders from Sheffield UK. They make shifty algorithmic techno with inspirations including Ancient Greek metrical structures and South Indian rhythms. They co-organise Sheffield Pattern Club together with their friend Ray Morrison. You can read more about their work in this Sheffield Tribune article.
They will be performing live as part of the Alpaca Festival closing party.
Performing at:
Closing party
Sunday 14th Sept 2025
7pm-10pm CADS, Sheffield