STREAM LINK: https://youtu.be/hJ73IGYawuM

In the 5th edition of MusicLab we invite you to an online algorave (algorithmic rave)! Prominent algoravers Renick Bell and Khoparzi will improvise live-coded music on their computers from their respective locations in Japan and India, while audience in their homes all over the world dance to the rave music. This event is also the launch of our brand new MusicLab App!

START TIMES: 13:30 UTC; 15:30 in Oslo; 19:00 in India; 22:30 in Japan

PARTICIPATE IN RESEARCH:
We aim to understand how live-streamed concerts make you move! We are launching our new MusicLab mobile application which measures your movement with your phone's sensors. Please where a shirt with a pocket so your phone can be worn on your upper body. We ask that participants enjoy the concert while standing (as much as you can), and dance along as you would at a real rave! You can download the MusicLab application to your phones before the event. More instructions will come at the concert! Please make sure your phones are charged! :D

The MusicLab Application can be downloaded from here:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.uio.mobileapps.musiclab&hl=en
Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/musiclab/id1512077801

Tentative schedule (in UTC time):
13:30-13:45 introduction by Solveig with instructions for participants on app
13:45-14:15: Renick Bell set
14:15-14:25: Intermission and fill out post-performance form 1
14:25-14:55: Khoparzi set
14:55-15:25: Panel discussion and Q&A with performers Khoparzi and Renick Bell and researchers Qichao Lan and Jonna Vuoskoski. Moderated by Dana Swarbrick.
15:25-15:55: Data Jockeying by Cagri Erdem.
15:55-16:00: Wrap-up

About the algorave performers:

Renick Bell is one of the leading figures of the algorave movement. Mixmag magazine has called him “one of [the algorave] scene’s more flabbergasting producers,” and Resident Advisor calls him “Algorave kingpin” and writes that “watching him make his music is just as fun as dancing to it.” Bell improvises bass-heavy, algorithmically generated music full of percussion and noise by live coding with open source software, including software that he has written called Conductive. Each performance is new and unique, unheard before the event even by Bell, with his live-programming activity projected for the audience to see.

Check out his music here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXuLsLV20bw&feature=emb_title

Source / Read more about Renick Bell: https://www.renickbell.net/about/

Khoparzi

Abhinay Khoparzi AKA Khoparzi is a multidisciplinary creative technologist who maintains a practice across film, video, music and web technologies. Having always tried to run away from being put in a box he has in turns been a consumer, critic, and maker of tools that allow him and others to make experiences that makes us think, play and inform. In 2018, filmmaker/visualist Dhanya Pilo and Khoparzi co-instigated Algorave India, a collective of artists, musicians, and visualists intent on promoting programming as performance art through Algoraves.

Check out his music here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-9-HfVK0rQ&feature=emb_title

Source / Read more about Abhinay Khoparzi: https://khoparzi.com/aboutme/


Other contributors:

Çağrı Erdem - Data Jockey: Çağrı is a performer and doctoral researcher specializing in improvised electroacoustic music and body–machine interaction.

Prof. Jonna Vuoskoski - Panelist: Jonna is an associate professor cross-appointed in the departments of psychology and musicology who researches the interaction between entrainment, social bonding and pleasure

Qichao Lan - Panelist: Qichao Lan is the designer of the browser-based live coding environment QuaverSeries and the programming language of the same name. He has a background of computational linguistics and electroacoustic music composition. In 2018, he gained his master's degree in Sonic Arts at the University of Sheffield. Now, as a doctoral research fellow in the University of Oslo, he is working at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, and doing research on how we can use gestures in live coding.

Dana Swarbrick - Moderator, researcher and event organizer: Dana researches the influence music on movement in live concert settings.

Solveig Sørbø - Hostess and event organizer: Solveig is a librarian and a musician who performs as PYSJ.

More information:

https://www.uio.no/ritmo/english/news-and-events/events/musiclab/2020/musiclab-5---lockdown-rave/