Shelly Knotts
7:30 - 9:30pm
Shelly Knotts produces live-coded and network music performances and projects which explore aspects of code, data, and collaboration. Her experimental and collaborative tendencies have seen her engage with diverse musical practices and styles ranging from electroacoustic tape music to live-coded dance music. She performs internationally, collaborating with computers and other humans.
She has taken part in several online festivals and broadcast performances both as a solo performer and as part of G.I.A.S.O (Great international Audio Streaming Orchestra), including Piksel 2013 (Bergen, NO) and Audioblast 2014 (Nantes and Anger, FR). Past affiliations have included BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre) and sound art collective SOUNDkitchen. She is also a co-founder and project manager of Network Music Festival, Birmingham, U.K.
As well as composing and performing, Shelly has presented and published her work at international conferences and in international journals. She has also been involved in the organisation of a number of projects, including "Rewriting the Hack" and the 1st International Conference of Live Coding, and she regularly facilitates workshops on creative coding.