Melody Loveless is a musician, educator, creative technologist, and multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work ranges from live coding performance, generative sound installations, sculptures with embedded electronics, and more. She has performed around the city in various venues, including Babycastles, Wonderville, (le) poisson rouge, Performance Space New York, and Eyebeam. She has also organized/co-organized events including various concerts/performances, exhibitions, conferences, hackathons, and more. Past honors include artist residencies (local and international), performances and talks at conferences and festivals, and awards and press for her music and work as a creative technologist. She has presented talks on music education and her artistic practice for various organizations and events including the New Music Gathering, Monthly Music Hackathon, and Bates Digital Music Symposium. (See below for details.) She has taught in various institutes and organizations including New York University, the New School, Hunter College, Music Hackspace, and Harvestworks. During the Spring 2022 semester, she was Visiting Faculty in the Department of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is also part of the first cohort of Cycling 74’s Max Certified Trainer Program.

Links:
Instagram - @melodycodes
Linked In

Quotes/Press/Features:
Craig Thompson, “CUNY Stories November 2023 | Urban U” - CUNY TV/Urban U (November 2023)
Amy Rowe, “At Brooklyn algoraves, you can dance to code while it’s being coded live” - Alt Press (March 2023)
Max Alper, “AI Music Optimism in the Face of Dystopia” - Hii Magazine (October 2022)
Eric Milikin, “Meet Kinetic Imaging visiting faculty Melody Loveless” - VCUArts News (February 2022)
EOREOC: Volume One - Voltage Control Records and Remote Telescopes (August 2021)
Prarthana Mitra, ”The Cult Of The Code: Decoding Algorave & Its Future In South Asia” - The Wild City (August 2021)
”For the love of code: In conversation with Melody Loveless” - Girls Twiddling Knobs (July 2021)
”To Listen to in 2021” - Dancegeist Magazine (March 2021)
BYTE: ”live_loop: upbeat” - CurrentsFM (February 2021)
Dan Glaun, “How Melody Loveless Makes Computer Code Sing” - Glitch (March 2020)
Merrie Snead, “Incorporating Access, Equity, and the Arts in Coding Instruction” - New School News (January 2020)
Luke Winkie, “That Music You’re Dancing To? It’s Code” - New York Times (October 2019)
Daniel Oberhaus, “Who Killed the American Demoscene?” - Vice (May 2019)

Awards/Residencies:
Shortlist 2022 - Performing Arts | Creative Capital For work on Women’s Labor: The Housework Commons (May 2022)
Artist in Residence with Holes in the Wall Collective (November 2019)
Artist in Residence at KH Messen (March/April 2019)
Artist in Residence at Gamli Skoli (June 2018)
Best Short Score for Maureen Seattle Composers Alliance Awards (2014)

Talks/Conferences/Presentations:
Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces: Boundless Thinking - Co-organized the workshop with Kate Sicchio and Kofi Oduro (December 2023)
Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces: Bodies, Voices, and Pedagogies - Co-organized the workshop with Kate Sicchio and Kofi Oduro (December 2022)
Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces: Beyond the Screen - Presented “Church of Codie” with Codie [Kate Sicchio and Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo] (December 2021)
Corridor of Light Festival - Online discussion on algorave (October 2021)
New Music Gathering - Money - Live coding performance (August 2021)
Girls Code Fest - Panel and performance with Codie (March 2021)
Learning to Teach Creative Technologies Online - Hosting Virtual Events: Teaching Live Coding Online (January 2021)
Pathways: Art and Technology (July 2020)
International Live Coding Conference - Algorave with Codie; Algorave with Ulysses Popple (January 2020)
International Live Coding Conference - Algorave with Codie (January 2019)
Bates Digital Music Symposium (October 2018)
Monthly Music Hackathon - Music Education (October 2018)
New Music Gathering - Music Education (May 2018)