Ricercar
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Walzersymphonie
Johann Strauss II and Creative AI
The year 2025 marks the 200th birthday of world-famous composer Johann Strauss II. On behalf of Johann Strauss Festjahr 2025 Wien, the Ars Electronica Futurelab is dedicating itself to this anniversary with “Walzersymphonie” (Waltz Symphony). The project’s central question is: “How can artists use the creative potential of AI technologies?”
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Absolute Hallucination
An AI Self-Playing Piano Improvisation
Absolute Hallucination: An AI Self-Playing Piano Improvisation by Futurelab Key Researcher Ali Nikrang explores the creative space learned by an AI-based music composition system by randomly traveling through different compositional paths. It provokes questions about the nature of music and the hallucinatory characteristics of generative AI. The world premiere of this piece took place at…
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transart23: Pianographique
Music and Images by Humans and Machines
“Pianographique – Music and Images by Humans and Machines” at transart23 in Bolzano combined two current artistic research projects of Ars Electronica, both dedicated to the creative fusion of instrumental music and digital technologies.
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SonoSynthesis
Can Machines and Nature Co-Create Music?
In the new era of creative collaboration, can machines and nature co-create art and music? In the SonoSynthesis project, a team of researchers from the Ars Electronica Futurelab brought together AI, biology, and Deep Space technologies to develop an immersive audio and visual experience.
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Sounding Letters
Visualized Human/AI Piano Performance
A captivating virtual experience: the program Sounding Letters at Deep Space 8K shows how humans and AI create music together with a 3D piano concert.
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Mission KI
Hands-On Exhibits on Artificial Intelligence
In collaboration with the Ars Electronica Futurelab, the Deutsches Museum in Bonn has reinvented itself to become a central platform for the future topic of artificial intelligence: in two themed experience rooms, visitors to the Mission KI (Mission AI) exhibition can now explore the key technology of the 21st century.
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Sounding Letters
When AI Turns Letters Into Music
Ars Electronica Futurelab and Ars Electronica Center celebrated their 25th anniversary in 2021. As part of the celebrations, Sounding Letters was created: it utilizes the initial letters of the two institutions as a musical theme, which was used to compose a piece of music with the help of the AI system Ricercar.