Object Permanence
Object Permanence – Algorave Helsinki Festival at Caisa Culture Centre
Object Permanence is a festival of livecoded and algorithmic electronic music organised and curated by Algorave Helsinki in collaboration with Caisa Culture Centre.
Algorave Helsinki is an open collective/workshop, where the members learn music live-coding languages together. Live-coding is essentially typing and evaluating computer code, which produces music.
The term Algorave is used for the international live-coding parties, which started to form around 2010 in the UK. In these parties people perform live by using different coding languages and projecting the code/visuals behind the performer. The Algorave Helsinki workshop started in 2018 and it has since been held in different places. At the moment the workshop meets semi-irregularly at the WHS Teatteri Union’s Unika Gallery and it’s organised by the artists pulu (Miranda Kastemaa) and Forces (Joonas Siren).
Friday 16.05.2025 workshop
The festival starts with an open and free workshop of SuperCollider and Strudel languages on Friday 16th of May 2025, 18.00 – 21.00 at Caisa Centre lecture room. No previous coding language is needed. There is a limited number of seats, so secure your place by just sending an email to: algorave.helsinki@protonmail.com On Saturday 17th of May 2025 there is a full evening of algorithmic music performances. The artists were selected from an Open Call.
Saturday 17.05.2025 lineup
17-19.30
**break**
20-22
Welcome!
Tickets 11€/6€: https://www.caisa.fi/en/events/event/91615898C92EED0CC83D76B68D0A65DD/Object_Permanence_2025
Artists
Petri Keckman
"I am Petri Keckman, a digital artist and algorithmic rhythm creator. I use the REBOL programming language to shape simple sounds into evolving, repetitive rhythmic patterns. Though REBOL is an old language, it remains an inspiring tool that allows me to explore new sonic landscapes."
sofi
sofi (Sofia Zaiceva) is a Latvian sound artist exploring symbiotic relationships between a performer and algorithmic processes through immersive experimental electronic music. Focusing on creative coding, spatial sound, and improvisation - her artistic practice revolves around using sound as a malleable entity to evoke associations and alter perception, while exploring narratives of triggers, noise, and randomness.
https://sofiazaiceva.xyz/
https://soundcloud.com/sofiazaiceva
https://sofi.bandcamp.com/
Viktor Toikkanen
Viktor Toikkanen is a composer, performer, and multimedia artist from Helsinki, Finland, with over a decade of experience in the city’s electronic and experimental music scene both as a creator and event organizer. Navigating between electronic music, contemporary classical, multimedia, improvisation, and performance art, Toikkanen refuses to adhere to a single technique or style, instead constantly seeking new ways for self-expression.
https://linktr.ee/viktortoikkanen
Maija Anttila
Maija Anttila's audiovisual set 16m2 unpacks the trauma of the pandemic era. The starting point for the compositions are the two and a half months spent in a sixteen-square-meter studio in the eastern suburbs of Amsterdam during the first corona lockdown in spring 2020. The themes include, e.g. the feeling of pressure left in the body as a long-term physical condition, various forms of escapism, and the effect that lack of perspective and lack of community had on the ability to function. The performance is created with Ableton Live and Max/MSP/Jitter.
bonk~
bonk~ is an artistic collaboration directed towards audiovisual programming. Formed by two Helsinki-based artists Jonatan Snapir and Otso Kauniskangas, bonk~ sets out to explore the different textures and dynamics of the digital error.
bonk~’s latest performance piece is based on manipulating sampled audio and found sound. The algorithm generates layered loops and variations of the material, creating textural distorted soundscapes.
https://otsokauniskangas.com/
https://jonatansnapir.com/
https://snapirmusic.bandcamp.com
Notstandskomitee
Notstandskomitee is Malte Steiner's electronic solo project since 1991 and is going to play tracks from current album The Doomsday Layout recreated with Steiners own live coding software gravel. Additionally he will use a DIY modular synthesizer he developed in the last months and visuals programmed with the game engine Godot.
https://www.block4.com/
https://notstandskomitee.bandcamp.com/
Forces
Constantly mutating rhythms and sharp digital textures shape the sound of Forces. Forces is the electronic music project of Finnish interdisciplinary artist Joonas Siren. Different live-coding and processing techniques are used to make dense atomized swirls; electronic and sometimes chaotic, abstract oceans of sound. Forces’ music has been released on mappa, Infinite Machine, Gin & Platonic, Genot Centre, Conditional and Bio Future Laboratory, and has also been played in mixes by experimental producers like Aphex Twin, Daniel Ruane and ZULI.
https://ffforces.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/forces-music
https://joonassiren.fi/
pulu
miranda "pulu" kastemaa is a Helsinki-based livecoder, algorithmic musician and all-round cyber-noisemaker. Demonstrating the often ignored potential of "obsolete" computers, they weave intricate rainbows of rhythm and melody from multi-lingual labyrinths of code.
Aleksandar Koruga
Aleksandar Koruga is a musician and researcher whose work relies extensively on algorithmic practices. With this approach he assembles bespoke interactive systems for musical performance.
His aesthetics are heavily post-rave influenced through a meticulous deconstruction of rhythms and timbres, while his practice is mostly based on structured improvisation and human-machine interaction.