badcirculation is a collaboration between Antonio Roberts (hellocatfood) and Maria Witek (mxwx). Working primarily with the open source TidalCycles software, they create electronic dance music with the randomness of algorithmically generated beats. They each bring their diverse musical backgrounds to explore genres including Grime, Footwork, House and UK Garage.
Since making their debut in 2019 they have performed at Corsica Studios, No Bounds Festival, Adela Festival, AMRO, Supernormal Festival, and a host of Algoraves across the UK.
- Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/badcirculation
- Instagram: instagram.com/badcirculationband
- Youtube: youtube.com/@badcirculation
- LinkTree: linktr.ee/badcirculation
- e-mail: badcirculation at gmail dot com
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| Date | Location |
|---|---|
| 30/07/2026 | Pattern Club Live, Sheffield |
| 14/05/2026 | Mapping Festival, Geneva |
| 04/11/2025 | Sigil Radio, Birmingham |
| 13/09/2025 | Alpaca Festival, Sheffield |
| 24/06/2025 | Errorcamp |
| 12/10/2024 | No Bounds Festival, Sheffield |
| 14/09/2024 | British Science Festival, London |
| 04/08/2024 | Supernormal Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire |
| 29/03/2024 | Algorave x Pattern Club, Alder Bar, Sheffield |
| 01/12/2023 | Spectral Karaoke, Pan Pan, Birmingham |
| 18/11/2023 | Adela Festival, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana |
| 01/09/2022 | fakedac~ 003, Corsica Studios, London |
| 17/06/2022 | Art Meets Radical Openness, Linz |
| 31/03/2022 | 10 Years of Algorave, Corsica Studios, London |
| 21/10/2021 | Corridor of Light, HATCH, Manchester |
| 12/09/2021 | Errorcamp |
| 18/07/2020 | Network Music Festival, Online |
| 19/03/2020 | Eulerroom Equinox, Online |
| 07/02/2020 | ICLC, Limerick, Ireland |
| 16/08/2019 | Coventry Algorave, Herbert Museum and Art Gallery, Coventry |
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Alpaca Festival 2025
Spectral Karaoke 2023
fakedac~ 2022
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Alpaca Festival 2025 Performance Technical Overview
20 July 2026
For this first of hopefully many posts I (Antonio) wanted to do a technical overview of a recent live coding performance. On September 13th 2025 we performed at Sheffield’s Alpaca Festival which confusingly isn’t about alpacas and is actually a festival focused on patterns in music and art. It’s an acronym that stands for Algorithmic Patterns in Creative Arts.
For Alpaca we wanted to do something a bit special and so we proposed a performance that would use drum machine patterns, initially from the book 260 Drum Machine Patterns, as its starting point. We wanted to use some of these drum patterns, or parts from them, and combine them with melodies made in TidalCycles. Overall we thought that fitted the theme of patterns quite well!