Sound Art – Artificial Intelligence

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

( UN ) MEASUREMENTS

Gregor Tatschl — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 13:36:13 +0000

Gil Delindro (PT/DE)

Consider a mechanical rotation, like a car motor: it has a fixed cycle, but no rotation is exactly equal to the previous one; there is a direction but absolute repetition is impossible; an external input slowly but constantly contaminates it. Such is the nature of all matter, a cyclic being but never a static one.

A dead tree was carved, removing the parts where fungi and larvae thrived; bacteria, the architects of an ongoing typography, still inhabit this place. This piece creates different axes or rotation cycles. There are five reading points built on prepared microphones—they act as needles reading the surface of the tree within specific orbits. Since all of the branch is irregular, a single rotation contains five different reading cycles. Through the course of time these segments or measurements align in one specific moment between each twelve rotations. There is a polyrhythmic interplay between order and chaos in this transient space. The acoustic typography of the wood generates and remakes the sound as the orbit proceeds.

Credits

The piece was developed during a residency at the Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic, 2016, with the support of the SHAPE European platform.

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.

Experts Tour: Insight Inside: Live Skype to the MRI Laboratory

Martin Hieslmair — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 06:33:30 +0000

Fraunhofer MEVIS Workshop with Yen Tzu Chang

For her performance Whose Scalpel, Yen Tzu Chang recorded her own heart data with the help of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. We are going to switch to the live stream of the MRI laboratory, where the researchers will give us detailed insights into the functions of the MRI scanner, and we can immediately ask questions and scan real pieces of fruit. On the computer, we can use the recorded data to recognize their internal structures without cutting the fruit open. Yen Tzu Chang will provide insight into her performance entitled Whose Scalpel and discuss images of her heart taken at the scanner with experts. Finally, we will continue to experiment with medical images of the human body using computers.

Sabrina Haase (DE), Yen Tzu Chang (TW), Bianka Hofmann (DE)

FRI Sept. 8, 2017

FRI Sept. 8, 2017, 3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Infos

Meeting Point: POSTCITY WE GUIDE YOU Meeting Point
Duration: 90 Minutes
Language: German / English
Age of participants: 16–25 years (limited to max. 20 persons)
Price: free of charge for festival pass or day pass owners

Experts Tour: Sonic Saturday Tour

Martin Hieslmair — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 06:15:17 +0000

Media artist and composer Se-Lien Chuang and professor Andreas Weixler, director of the Computer Music Studio (CMS), give exciting insights into the Sonic Lab & the Computer Music Studio (CMS) at Anton Bruckner Private University. After a short tour follows an introduction into the functionality of the multichannel intermedia computer music concert hall.

Andreas Weixler (AT), Se-Lien Chuang (TW)

SAT Sept. 9, 2017

SAT Sept. 9, 2017, 4:00 PM-4:45 PM

Infos

Meeting Point: Anton Bruckner Private University, Hagenstrasse 57, 4040 Linz
Duration: 45 minutes
Language: English
Price: free of charge for festival pass or day pass owners