Affiliation: Creative Code Club Newcastle
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Shelly Knotts produces live-coded and network music performances and projects which explore aspects of code, data and collaboration in improvisation. In 2018-2021 she was a Post-doctoral Researcher at Durham University working on AHRC project: Musically Intelligent Machines Interacting Creatively. She completed a PhD in Live Computer Music at Durham University with a focus on collaboration in Network Music. She was Leverhulme artist in residence at Newcastle University in 2017, and a Post-doctoral researcher at Monash University, Melbourne in 2017-2018. She has performed at numerous Algoraves and Live Coding events worldwide, both solo and with collaborative projects including algo-pop duo ALGOBABEZ (with Joanne Armitage), OFFAL (Orchestra For Females And Laptops), and live coding performance [Sisesta Pealkiri] with Alo Allik. She has performed at MUTEK, SXSW and other international festivals.
In 2017 she was a winner of BBC Radiophonic Workshop and PRSF ‘The Oram Awards’ for innovation in sound and music.