Alexandra Cardenas

Alexandra Cardenas is a composer, programmer, and improviser of music born in Bogotá, Colombia. She studied composition at the Universidad de Los Andes where she also carried studies in mathematics and classical guitar. Using open source software like SuperCollider and TidalCycles, her work is focused on the exploration of the musicality of code and the algorithmic behavior of music. Alexandra is among the pioneers of live coding in electroacoustic music and at the forefront of the Algorave scene. Currently, she lives in Berlin, Germany, recently completing a masters in Sound Studies at the Berlin University of the Arts.