Harris holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Music from Yale University and is currently pursuing an MFA in Design Media Arts at UCLA. She teaches at the School for Poetic Computation and Gray Area, was a 2024 Processing Foundation Fellow, and has created commissions for Cycling ’74 and Code.org. Her performances have taken place at the Getty Museum, TivoliVredenburg, and MoMA PS1, and have been presented through platforms including Dweller Festival, Sónar+D, and the International Conference on Live Coding. She has given talks at Stanford, Parsons, and CalArts. Her work has been featured in KILLSCREEN and Office Magazine.
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https://roxanneharris.bandcamp.com/album/longform
The 55-minute record is the new work from Roxanne Harris "alsoknownasrox," who calls sound into being through extended live improvisation with code. Built from a 160 BPM continuum, pace shifts within and between ten compositions as density and weight move across the grid. Tightly articulated percussion, sustained bass pressure, and layers of synthesized and recorded material take shape through notation Harris writes and rewrites as it executes.
Harris modulates conditional logic while making unquantized moves against the underlying pulse. Recurrence lives in the interval between returns, where memory makes difference perceptible. Each return becomes a landmark, with traces of earlier states remaining audible as new ones accumulate. She churns this recursion until familiar sonic associations lose their pull, driving the music toward escape velocity and unfamiliar terrain. Harris describes this mode of thinking as runtime thought: an intention takes form as notation, executes as sound, and feeds back through listening to inform another decision. longform needs duration for material to coalesce and change, reconfiguring what came before.
Harris composes some recordings directly in source code. For others, she uses a custom event-timeline system to preserve the timing and sequence of earlier edits and replay them in later performances. This lets her return to those moments with their timing and logic intact. She crystallizes the resulting live sessions through arrangement and mixing while retaining overtones of their emergence.
Each composition takes an avian name inspired by its timbral character and evolution. longform fixes one realization of a practice in motion.
releases November 18, 2026
10/24 - Art Blocks Marfa Weekend
https://www.artblocks.io/marfa-weekend
https://luma.com/abmw2026
10/30 - Crash Course LA, dublab HQ
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2026.10.30
Crash Course LA
Crash Course LA
2026.10.24
Art Blocks Marfa Weekend
Art Blocks Marfa Weekend
2026.10.15
Triple Point
Triple Point
2026.09.25
Responsive Dreams
Responsive Dreams
2026.07.8
Hybrid Live Coding w/ Gray Area
Hybrid Live Coding w/ Gray Area
2026.06.26
RUSF Series: II
RUSF Series: II
2026.06.18
Sónar+D
Sónar+D
2026.06.13
Pique Festival
Pique Festival
2026.04.25
Flux Festival
Flux Festival
2026.04.11
Crash Course w/ Swami Sound and gum.mp3
Crash Course w/ Swami Sound and gum.mp3
2026.02.17
EOD: A Mid Residency Exhibition
EOD: A Mid Residency Exhibition
2026.01.20
Decoding Tendencies w/ SFPC (Winter 2026)
Decoding Tendencies w/ SFPC (Winter 2026)
2025.11.29
ATEM Biennial 2025
ATEM Biennial 2025
2025.11.27
ITERATIONS 2025
ITERATIONS 2025
2025.10.24
Decipher SF x Concrete Cut
Decipher SF x Concrete Cut
2025.10.17
Art Blocks Marfa Weekend
Art Blocks Marfa Weekend
2025.10.9
Vibe Shift
Vibe Shift
2025.9.13
AlgoRave
AlgoRave
2025.8.12
Jazz w/ Code
Jazz w/ Code
2025.6.10
Decoding Tendencies w/ SFPC (Summer 2025)
Decoding Tendencies w/ SFPC (Summer 2025)
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Hybrid Live Coding: Designing Systems for Audiovisual Performance
How Roxanne Harris performs jazz with code | KILLSCREEN
Decoding Tendencies in Live Coding | School for Poetic Computation
CodeSwitch (33.9668800, -118.4533748) // Remaster
Roxanne’s Journey to Live Coding | Code.org
Memory in Motion | Getty Research Institute
Fellows in Focus: Capturing the Ephemeral in Live Coding with Roxanne Harris | Processing Foundation
Hello, p5.js | Processing Foundation
Long Live Dweller | Office Magazine
At Brooklyn algoraves, you can dance to music while it’s being coded live | Alternative Press
Starting Points in Max pt.2 | Cycling ‘74
What I’m Working On | Yale Maquette