Niklas Reppel
Niklas Reppel is a German live coder based in Barcelona since 2017. He is also a sound artist, composer, musician, and a militant eclecticist. In Barcelona, he has established himself within the local TOPLAP community.
He performs nationally and internationally, primarily (though not always) as a live coder, using self-developed programming languages that over time have evolved into a small galaxy of live coding practices within the broader universe of live coding. His work flows freely across different styles of electronic music and sound art, where improvisation always plays a key role. He is the curator of the Algobient programme within DIGIT 2026.
Algobient (Algorithmic Ambient) is a live coding set format that brings multichannel music—typically confined to large institutions and universities—into less institutional and more unpredictable contexts, allowing new audiences to engage with it.
While live coding (the art of creating sound and visuals through programming languages in real time) is increasingly associated with an experimental strand of dance music, Algobient is an opportunity to explore its more ambient dimensions, giving space to soundscapes, drones, and ambisonics within a 10-channel DIY sound system built and installed for the occasion by Niklas Reppel himself. The sounds will also be combined with live-coded visuals.
This will be the eighth edition of Algobient—the first to take place outside Barcelona and venture into a rural context, in a very special location that will be revealed soon.
Niklas Reppel is a German live coder based in Barcelona since 2017. He is also a sound artist, composer, musician, and a militant eclecticist. In Barcelona, he has established himself within the local TOPLAP community.
He performs nationally and internationally, primarily (though not always) as a live coder, using self-developed programming languages that over time have evolved into a small galaxy of live coding practices within the broader universe of live coding. His work flows freely across different styles of electronic music and sound art, where improvisation always plays a key role. He is the curator of the Algobient programme within DIGIT 2026.
Algobient (Algorithmic Ambient) is a live coding set format that brings multichannel music—typically confined to large institutions and universities—into less institutional and more unpredictable contexts, allowing new audiences to engage with it.
While live coding (the art of creating sound and visuals through programming languages in real time) is increasingly associated with an experimental strand of dance music, Algobient is an opportunity to explore its more ambient dimensions, giving space to soundscapes, drones, and ambisonics within a 10-channel DIY sound system built and installed for the occasion by Niklas Reppel himself. The sounds will also be combined with live-coded visuals.
This will be the eighth edition of Algobient—the first to take place outside Barcelona and venture into a rural context, in a very special location that will be revealed soon.