Ultra Process 2
It's all about the process. Come experience experimental live music, visuals, and sculpture you can move and dance to! As processed and crafted as the deliciously engineered goo in your choc egg. Featuring live coding, compiler errors, and occasional burnt fingers producing beats, liquid visuals, intricate melodies, industrial ambient, prog metal, finely crafted sound design, algorithmic drones, and more.
Schedule
7:30-7:55pm -- EverySongIOwn (A) & JoeyJoeyJoe (V)
8-8:30 -- hellocatfood (A/V)
8:40-9:15 -- The Printer Jam (A/V/Sc)
9:20-9:50 -- Epiploke (A/V)
10:00-10:30 -- Shankar Saanthakumar (A) & V. Buckenham (V)
Performers
Epiploke
Lucy and Alex collaborate as the live coding duo ‘Epiploke’, their music draws inspiration from mind-expanding patterns and rhythms from Ancient Greek and South Indian Carnatic traditions. Lucy co-founded Sheffield's SONA collective, and performs widely solo as Heavy Lifting and in diverse collaborations including TYPE and TYKE as well as Epiploke. Alex co-founded the algorave movement, and instigated the free/open source TidalCycles and Strudel live coding environments and has also performed loads, including solo as Yaxu. Lucy and Alex now regularly organise Algoraves, workshops and festivals back home in Sheffield UK as part of ‘Sheffield Pattern Club’.
Links
Alex: https://slab.org/
Lucy: https://heavy-lifting.org/ (bit out of date, sorry!)
Sheffield pattern club: https://patternclub.org/sheffield/
Nice article about us: https://www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/coding-is-the-new-clubbing-on-the/
JoeyJoeyJoe
Joey is an emerging live coder and musician. He focuses on using algorithms to construct quirky audio and visuals. His musical style is heavily inspired by electronic and hip-hop. He regards live coding as a medium for re-examining and highlighting the importance of human expression in the post-AI era.
Links:
instagram: @zhouyuyangjoey
bandcamp: https://joeyjoeyjoe.bandcamp.com/
Shankar Saanthakumar
...is an artist exploring perception, embodiment, and digital-analogue hybridity. His practice treats sound as sculpture, and uses live-coding to drive rhythmic systems with architectural precision.
Links:
Instagram: @shankarsaanthakumar
hellocatfood
Antonio Roberts (aka hellocatfood) is a Birmingham-based musician and visual artist. Working primarily with TidalCycles, VCV Rack and Pure Data, he employs algorithmic methods to make music that is both rhythmic and glitchy.
Since 2019 he has been building a reputation for his live performances, fusing genres ranging from ambient, footwork and IDM to drum and bass. He complements this with live visuals made using live coding software and hardware video synthesisers.
He has performed across the UK and Europe at respected venues and festivals including Green Man, Barbican, No Bounds Festival, Tate Modern, Supernormal, Corsica Studios, Cafe Oto, IKLECTIK, Psychic Dancehall, and Festival Tormenta.
He has supported the likes of Avalanche Kaito, Matthew Herbert and Momoko Gill, Matters and Monoxide Brothers.
He is currently working on his debut EP to be released in 2026.
Links:
Website: http://hellocatfood.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/hellocatfood
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hellocatfooood
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/hellocatfood
V Buckenham
artist / game designer / creative technologist / curator
The Printer Jam
The Printer Jam (Project Cassiel X BITPRINT) is a performance duo using livecoding to take advantage of the unintentionally musical mechanical motions of 3D printing. The performers create 3D printed objects that activate the printer motors at certain musical pitches and rhythms which are captured live, processed and looped, building up both physical objects and brooding, brutalist soundscapes. Each performance and its resulting artefacts are unique experiences for audience and performers alike.
Links:
instagram: @evanraskob_art, @projectcassiel
youtube: @pixelpusher54
Project Cassiel: https://cassiel.music/