Algorithmic Listening Party w/ Epiploke

Algorithmic Listening Party
Friday 30. April 2026
Entropia e.V. Steinstraße 23, 76133 Karlsruhe

People have danced to algorithms throughout history, including the Ancient Greeks. Epiploke is such an algorithm, evident in fragments of Ancient Greek texts, where metrical short-long structure is shifted in patterns. In this algorithmic listening session Lucy Cheesman and Alex McLean will explore Ancient Greek narratives and patterns with live code (TidalCycle), bringing together fragments of structures from different texts, including instances of epiploke, as well as incorporating audio descriptions from Homer and reconstructions of Homeric instrumentation. Also joining the evening are artists Janani Suresh Ram, Froos and pastagang, and the locals elmo and grainn.

18:00–19:30 Epiploke talk
Alex McLean & Lucy Cheesman

20:00–23:00 listening party
bharatanatyam: yaxu x Janani Suresh Ram / elmo / Epiploke / grainn / ravioli: pastagang

brought to you by toplap ka x entropia x haecksen
keep it boring!