Thursday, July 20 | 7–10pm
Factory Media Centre (366 Victoria Ave. N, Hamilton ON)
Join us for an algorithmic evening showcasing the work of Malitzin Cortés and her exhibition AUTO{}Construcción, and featuring acts Pirarán – algorithmic acid music ensemble, and members from Live.Code.Ontario.
Itinerary:
7:00: Doors Open
7:00-7:30pm: AUTO{}Construcción Exhibition opening reception
7:30-7:40pm: Live.Code.Ontario Performance
7:40-8:20: Pirarán Performance
8:20-8:30: Intermission
8:30-8:50: Malitzin Cortés Artist Talk
8:50-9:30: Malitzin Cortés Performance
Documentation from AUTO{}Construcción: Algorithmic Concert 
Documentation from AUTO{}Construcción: Algorithmic Concert 
Documentation from AUTO{}Construcción: Algorithmic Concert 
Documentation from AUTO{}Construcción: Algorithmic Concert 
Documentation from AUTO{}Construcción: Algorithmic Concert 
Documentation from AUTO{}Construcción: Algorithmic Concert 
Documentation from AUTO{}Construcción: Algorithmic Concert 
Documentation from AUTO{}Construcción: Algorithmic Concert 
Documentation from AUTO{}Construcción: Algorithmic Concert
In her talk Navigating through music and algorithms the styles of non-architects: AUTO{}Construccion, Malitzin Cortés will explain the creative process of Autoconstrucción, which is a live film encoding concert in a video game environment, commanded by algorithms in real time, this work has been turned into videos for theaters and a series of printed works, It is a piece that is displayed through different physical and digital media. The talk will address speculative architecture and resources such as machine learning, data visualization and construction of 3d environments to visualize the new styles after years of self-construction in the world, which is the core line of this work. Following the talk will be a concert using live coding and Unreal Engine in real time.
About the artists:
Malitzin Cortés (CNDSD) is a musician, speculative architect, and creative technologist. As an artist, she investigates the forms in which the sound, the architecture, the technology and the science hold the ability to be great diffusers of discoveries and devices of self-reflection that can unleash speculative worlds.
Through live coding processes, experimental sound, CGI, game software, installation, virtual reality and enhancement and performance, I seek to merge the physical and the digital through new models of social interaction and politics capable of providing new forms of relationship from utopia and the fiction in this constant state of crisis and also of hope. She is a professor and researcher at the Universidad CENTRO | Design, Film and Television in the field of creative code and in the CMMAS in the field of algorithmic music composition and live coding.
Pirarán is a networked ensemble, formed in 2021, of algorithmic acid music that combines the sound of analogue and digital synthesizers with live coded soundscapes and dance vectors. Pirarán attempts to provide (audio)visions of a world beyond the post-end of times. The band is influenced by xeno-harmonic and poly-temporal music forums, Latin-American popular modernism (Pérez Parado, Cumbia chichadélica, and MicoRex), and music genres like vaporwave, hippie synth music, techno, glitch, industrial, ambient and noise. Pirarán also draws extensively (and expropriates when deemed fit) from ideas, words and visions that give meaning to the music like Mark Fisher, David Graeber, Ursula K. Le Guinn, Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, Nancy Fraser, Manuel Maples Arce, Gayatri Spivak and Heriberto Yépez. Pirarán has existed since early 2022 when they recorded the side A of the Algorithmic Acid Music album. They had a mini-tour that summer performing in Morelia and Mexico City. They later released A la vørtex for the label Cjantal in the anthology Nijbla. In the fall 2022 they performed at the legendary music venue the Phog in Windsor (Canada) and they finished in 2023 the side B of the album. In the 2023 Canadian mini tour, Pirarán will be presenting different audiovisual versions of the recently premiered Side B from the Algorithimic Acid Music album. These algorithmic psychedelic networked shows will enable all members of the ensemble to interact live in the same location for the first time in more than one year instead of playing through an internet connection for multiple audiences in different parts of the world. The ensemble is made up by Iván López (Morelia, Mx), Diego Villaseñor (Mexico City) and Alejandro Franco Briones (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada). The illustrations of the album were made by Jorge Solar.
Diego Villaseñor (Videco) is a composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, philosopher and programmer, whose practice and research have developed around the following themes: collective creation, modular composition inspired by natural systems (particularly ecosystems), ecoacoustics, verification, development of extended techniques, polytemporality, microtonality, sound synthesis through acoustic instruments, ontology of the creative-musical process. His experience as a philosopher profoundly determines his work as a musical creator, but not only from a conceptual aspect, but also from a practical one, providing an approach to music from unusual perspectives and processes.
Iván López Pineda (Morelia, México, 1988) is a composer and electronic instrumentalist. His work includes acoustic and electroacoustic music. His creative search extends to fields such as improvisation with electronic/digital media, sound installation, and phonography. He obtained a Master’s degree in electroacoustic composition at the Katarina Gurska Superior Center, in Madrid, and a Bachelor’s degree in composition at the Escuela Superior de Música in Mexico City. He also studied percussion at the Conservatorio de las Rosas, in Morelia. His music has been presented in forums and festivals in different countries in America and Europe. Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ivan_lopez
Alejandro Franco Briones is a composer, live coder and sound artist from Mexico City. Some of his major interests are: time-oriented music, network art ecologies and musical/technological notational systems. Alejandro is also a PhD student at McMaster University in the department of Communication Studies & Media Arts interested in struggles for resistance and autonomy and artistic emancipatory forms of community organisation. He has presented papers and performances in the International Conference on Live Coding in its third, fourth, fifth and seventh iteration, the Electroacoustic Music Seminar in Mexico City, participated in independent experimental music festivals and concerts like the Network Music Festival (2020), Umbral Concert Series among many others. Alejandro is currently a teacher assistant in McMaster University teaching Digital Audio and New Media Arts, and a Research Assistant in the Network Imagination Laboratory (NIL) developing the online music platform Estuary. website: https://afrancob.github.io/sfelfdt/
Live.Code.Ontario is a node of live coding based in Canada that wishes to create a decentralised and broad community of people via practice of live coding while being open and interested in any other forms of creativity and imagination. In this iteration, Live.Code.Ontario is featuring artists connected to Hamilton: Alejandro Franco Briones, AlexJsMac, and Nico. As a collective, the group has organized live coding workshops, concerts, algoraves, and algo-pub-nights, in Hamilton, Windsor, and Toronto. Most recently we performed at the grand opening of the new venue of the artist-run centre, Factory Media Centre, in Hamilton, and organized a concert called UTC (-) with the Arts Council of Windsor Region, which consisted of multiple live-coding acts from across the world.
AlexJsMac is a software developer and new media artist based in Hamilton, ON whose passion for art and technology guides his practice investigating themes of human ecology with a heavy focus on the auditory realm. His works and performances have been included at international conferences and festivals such as ICLC, NIME, and the Network Music Festival and he is also a recipient of the 2022 City of Hamilton Arts Awards Shirley Elford Emerging Artist Commission Prize.
Nico is an educator, sound maker & bird enthusiast. Having just moved from Montreal to Toronto, this is Nico’s first performance in the Ontario region since he was on tour here with his lost, but not forgotten, ska band The Costanzas. His performance will be done using Shift, a live coding language he made to teach programming and music concurrently. This will be his first live “in-person” performance with Shift.
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