
Hyperspace presents an algorave at Miscellania, bringing together international and local practitioners of live-coded sound and visuals. Here, code is not simply a tool for making music. It is performed, written, altered and executed in real time, becoming part of the process through which rhythm, texture and image enmesh. Algorithms become instruments, while improvisation takes place through the continual negotiation between performer, machine, audience and code. Across the program, pairs of live coders will work with sound and image to produce music that is never entirely predetermined. Patterns shift, systems break down, rhythms mutate and structures are rebuilt in response to the people and the atmosphere of the room. Part concert, part club environment and part demonstration of computational performance, the algorave proposes a different relationship between code, bodies and dance, one in which the machinery of music-making is made visible and the algorithm itself becomes something to move with.