Renick Bell

Wary

Halcyon Veil

Halcyon Veil present Renick Bell’s long-awaited long-player, the follow up to his 2016 release for Lee Gamble's UIQ imprint.  "The 10 tracks on Wary come from Bell's practice of live coding in the algorave tradition; a distinct technique that involves manipulating a vast library of samples with text-based editing software.?! The album is an improvisatory gesture that sets him well apart from the DAW preset crowd, and one that equal influence from free jazz, King Tubby, Mark Fell, and Pan Sonic. Still, as the musician points out in a paper he authored in 2014, live coding isn't a genre; it's simply a performing method.?!

Renick Bell

Empty Lake EP

UIQ

The angular, abstract funk of Renick Bell’s Empty Lake EP for Lee Gamble’s UIQ is perhaps exactly what you might expect from a pioneer of algoraves - a forward-looking union of live coding and rave music that’s currently taking computer boffins out of the studio/bedroom and placing them in real, physical spaces to hear what happens. To date, beyond the live algoraves, Bell’s music has mostly been contained in his chaotic Fractal Beats series on soundcloud and thoroughly unpackaged in academic papers on live coding and pragmatic aesthetic theory.?!