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okcandice

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Photo by Rupert

okcandice / sonic seamstress is an anti-disciplinary artist-curator and musician living and working in Birmingham. Their practice is concerned with methodologies of grief via writing, sound, moving image and performance alongside the production of audio-visual archives. okcandice is the host of ‘Must Be The Music’ on Refuge Worldwide and founder of the sonic practice studio Bedtime Stories.

Cyberseed

They/Them

Cyberseed is a London based sound and visual artist. Their work is rooted in concepts of liminality and movement. Their sound is built through ambient melodies in combination with a nostalgic personal archive of field recordings and samples. With moody yet hopeful compositions Cyberseed explores the emotional landscape of change, creating sonic spaces of transformation and reflection.

Bundy

he/him

Photo by Nathan Harrison

Bundy is a Leeds-based artist and biologist. For him, music is as much an avenue for exploration as it is for connection – demonstrated by his genre-blending, versatile work. A co-founder of the Brum-based collective STK, he has written music for TV and also produces for other musicians.

Since discovering live-coding while supporting the band Kelora, he has begun to fuse machine-coded generative beats with his guitar-led tracks. He aspires to elevate representation for black artists in electronic music through (Algo|Afro) Futures, with an eventual goal of creating a cypher-esque performance pairing MCs and instrumentals that evolve in real time.

Sheba Q

She/Her

Photo by Andy Commons https://andycommonsimages.com

Sheba Q is a London-based vocalist, turntablist, and mathematics teacher whose artistry bridges her East Afrikan heritage with UK bass music. Her musical journey is deeply rooted in her Bantu/ Nilotic lineage, with ancestral ties to the Queen of Sheba. Known predominantly as a Jungle and Drum & Bass DJ, Sheba Q also crafts immersive soundscapes with her voice that resonate with cultural depth and melodic complexity. Her dual passion for music and mathematics reflects her belief in the interconnectedness of patterns and sequences, whether it be melodies or numbers. Through her participation in the (Algo|Afro) Futures mentorship programme, she aims to further enhance her sonic explorations learning live coding/ production to enrich her craft and ever growing community.

Ray

He/it

Ray is a writer, performer, facilitator, organiser and eavesdropper based in Birmingham.

BLACK, trans, queer and grateful a lot of its work centres experimentation and discomfort.

Ray is also interested in food as a storytelling device as it also as an excuse to think about pastry a little bit more.

Recently he has been thinking about ways to express himself without words as sometimes they aren’t really enough.

He has performed in lots of different places and hopes to perform in many more!

Ray currently rarely knows where to sit, but he thinks that’s okay so maybe you should too. He is warm but well which is always a plus.

David Quartey

he/they

David, a bioengineer and researching designer, works in imaginative non-fictions of regenerative medicine – finding a grounding in ecological and land justice, advocating for communities space that encourages tangents.

With experience in biomaterials and gene therapy beginning a decade earlier at Aston University in Birmingham, joining (Algo|Afro) Futures meets a vision built through film photography and soundtracking industrial architecture and empty warehouses– in homage to a steadfast black technical tradition.

co-founding Imperceptible Clouds in 2023 as an experimental sound collective shoutsouts the likes of Ulysses Jenkins, Dubmorphology, Basquiat’s GRAY and Space Africa tracing language through sound as texture and documentary.