Digital Music – Artificial Intelligence

Music Monday

Gregor Tatschl — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 09:09:23 +0000

Werner Jauk (AT) und Manuela Naveau (AT)

Euphoric connoisseurs and fervent fans, once again this year the seasoned professionals and intrepid amateurs who make up the digital music and sound art scene will gather for Music Monday on the last day of Ars Electronica. The journey begins at 10:30 AM at Linz’s Bruckner University, where insights into undergraduates’ artistic practices and a workshop awaits the participants.

After this the Music Monday visits the OK Center for Contemporary Art and POSTCITY, where musician/musicologist Werner Jauk will discuss music’s influence on media art. Jauk will then interview the artists whose sound installations are featured in the Festival’s main venue. Concluding Music Monday is the Austrian premiere of Philip Glass’ 20 Etudes for Piano,
interpreted by Maki Namekawa and Cori Olan in the Train Hall at POSTCITY.

Chair: Werner Jauk (AT) and Manuela Naveau (AT)

Schedule

10:30 AM – 07:30 PM**	Music Monday Performances, Präsentationen und Parcours Moderation: Werner Jauk (AT) and Manuela Naveau (AT)
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM	Manuela Naveau (AT), Werner Jauk (AT): Start Your Music Monday Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM	Lukas Jakob Löcker & invited artists: Sonic Experiments Showcase #1
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Volkmar Klien (AT), Astrid Schwarz (AT), Castelló Angélica (MX/AT), Roberta Lazo Valenzuela (CL): Studieren @ Bruckneruni Linz
13:00 – 13:05 PM	Genoveva Rückert (AT): Willkomen in der CyberArts Exhibition OK im OÖ Kulturquartier
01:05 PM– 01:20 PM	Elliot Woods (UK) / Kimchi and Chips: Light Barrier 3rd Edition
01:20 PM – 01:40 PM	Cedrik Fermont (CD/BE/DE), Dimitri della Faille (BE/CA): Not Your World Music: Noise In South East Asia
01:40 PM – 02:00 PM	Katsuki Nogami (JP), Taiki Watai (JP): Rekion Voice
02:00 PM – 02:20 PM	Krzysztof Cybulski (PL): Acoustic Additive Synthesizer
02:20 PM – 02:40 PM	Juri Hwang (KR): Somatic Echo
02:40 PM – 03:00 PM	Dmitry Morozov (RU): Somatic Echo / volnovod
04:00 PM – 04:30 PM	Keylecture by Werner Jauk (AT) POSTCITY, Train Hall
04:30 PM – 04:45 PM	Maki Namekawa (AT) POSTCITY, Train Hall
04:45 PM – 05:00 PM	Philip Vermeulen (NL): Physical Rhythm Machine / Boem BOem POSTCITY, Train Hall
05:00 PM – 05:20 PM	Cod.Act (CH): Nyloïd POSTCITY, Welcome
05:20 PM – 05:45 PM	Yen Tzu Chang (TW): Whose scalpel Ei Wada (JP): Sempookin Thomas J. Jelinek (AT): ENTROPY POSTCITY, First Floor Spiral Falls
05:45 PM – 06:00 PM	Nicolas Kisic Aguirre (PE): Modular Rhythm Machine POSTCITY, Stiegenhaus
06:00 PM – 06:15 PM	Werner Jauk (AT): e–mot–ivat–ion–Feeling the Ex–Tension POSTCITY, Zwischengeschoss
06:15 PM – 06:30 PM	Lien–Cheng Wang (TW): Reading Plan POSTCITY, Basement
06:30 PM – 06:45 PM	Matthew Biederman (US/CA), Marko Peljhan (US/SI/LV): We Should Take Nothing For Granted—On the Building of an Alert and Knowledgeable Citizenry POSTCITY, Basement
06:45 PM – 07:00 PM	Christian Skjødt (DK): ÆTER POSTCITY, Basement
07:00 PM – 07:15 PM	Gil Delindro (PT/DE): Permafrost \| ( UN ) MEASUREMENTS – 2 # The weight of repetition POSTCITY, Basement
07:15 PM – 07:30 PM	GayBird (HK): Fidgety (In Between Up & Down) POSTCITY, Basement
07:30 PM – 10:00 PM	20 Etudes for Piano by Philip Glass POSTCITY, Ground Floor, Train Hall

** Free tickets for the Pöstlingbergbahn are available free of charge on presentation of a purchased festival or day pass at POSTCITY Infodesk

Corpus Nil

Gregor Tatschl — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 14:53:46 +0000

Marco Donnarumma (DE/IT)

Corpus Nil is a music performance exploring hybrid forms of identity and musicianship. It does so through an intense and ritualistic interaction between an artificially intelligent musical instrument, a human body and sound

The space is completely dark. The player, whose body is partly naked and partly painted in black, performs a tense choreography that gradually morphs his body.

Two types of wearable biosensors transmit data from the performer’s body to the software: microphones capture sounds from muscles and internal organs, and electrodes capture muscle voltages. Using particular audio-analysis algorithms, the instrument re-synthesizes the bodily sounds by orchestrating a network of digital oscillators. Further, the instrument learns the nuances of the performer’s movement and thus chooses whether to activate particular oscillators, how to regulate volumes, glissandos and multi-channel diffusion, and how to adjust feedback amounts within the network.

The player cannot control the instrument, but only learn how to affect it and be affected by it. The piece discards conventional performer-instrument relationships—founded on the performer’s full control of the instrument—in favor of an unstable corporeal engagement between the two. Through the rhythm of sound, vibration and light, the performer’s body and the instrument mutate, physically and conceptually, into something “other”; an unfamiliar creature defying the common definition of the human.

Author, research, concept, music, choreography, light design, performance, programming: Marco Donnarumma
Additional programming and research: Baptiste Caramiaux
Stage production: Margherita Pevere
Photography: Onuk and ZKM
Supported by: EAVI, Goldsmiths, University of London
Research funding: European Research Council

Experts Tour: Music Monday Tour

Martin Hieslmair — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 06:45:43 +0000

The Sound Art Parcour of Music Monday is an Ars Electronica tradition of long standing. The tour kicks off at Anton Bruckner Private University, the focus is on the Ars Electronica Festival’s projects that have to do with sound. The defining characteristic is that this is actually a music education program designed to mediate the general public’s encounters with musical art.

Manuela Naveau (AT), Werner Jauk (AT)

MON Sept. 11, 2017

MON Sept. 11, 2017, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Infos

Meeting Point: Anton Bruckner Private University, Hagenstrasse 57, 4040 Linz
Duration: 90 minutes
Language: English
Price: free of charge for festival pass or day pass owners. Participants of the Music Monday can get a free ride ticket (for official transport and the Pöstlingberg train) at the POSTCITY Infodesk, as long as stocks last.