Noise is an important element in the creativity of artificial intelligence. To understand the relationship between noise and the “soul” in a machine, we used temperature and human interaction as noise in the AI Ink project while composing music with artificial intelligence. After all, temperature is also associated to emotions in the human body.
AI Ink was part of the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s multi-year Future Ink research in collaboration with partner Wacom. The prototype was presented in 2021: Participants were able to use a digital pen tablet from Wacom to express how they felt during the year using a temperature line that generated music.
Why does music touch our soul?
A section of music capturing the emotion of each participant was collected to create one large music representing our year as a society during the pandemic. AI carries and connects our souls, opening new possibilities of co-creation between humans and machines.
The Collective Blue Danube
The first prototype of AI Ink was presented during the Ars Electronica Festival 2021, as part of the Alchemists of the Future exhibition, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Ars Electronica Futurelab. At the AI Ink prototype experience, visitors could compose music together with an AI system that turned their emotional state of the past 12 months into a collective new version of The Blue Danube waltz.
AI Ink prototype at the Alchemists of the Future photo: Birgit Cakir
AI Ink prototype experience photo: Birgit Cakir
AI Ink prototype photo: Birgit Cakir
AI Ink prototype screen photo: Birgit Cakir
Credits
Ars Electronica Futurelab: Horst Hörtner, Ali Nikrang, Hideaki Ogawa, Yoko Shimizu
Wacom Co., Ltd.
