Sound Art

Acte de Fe

Marc Vilajuana, Adrià Grandia, Carlos Martorell

Act of faith (Acte de Fe) is an exploration of our relationship with technology, its similarities with the one we have with religion, the tools involved in both processes, and its impact on us and in our sacred/private space. Mise-en-scène will consist in a liturgy performed by Marc Vilajuana (voice, effects, hand drum), Adrià Grandia (acoustic and MIDI hurdy-gurdy, modular synth, laptop, aerophones), Carlos Martorell (coding, synths, motion sensors, artiphon) and a real-time reactive AI trained with religious scores.

Interdependence with Richie Hawtin: AI for humans

Holly Herndon, Matt Dryhust

In dieser Diskussion sprengen wir die binäre Trennung von Mensch und Maschine im Prozess des Musikmachens, untersuchen Möglichkeiten, wie KI-Systeme dazu beitragen könnten, dass mehr Menschen bezahlt werden, anstatt verdrängt zu werden, und diskutieren die Notwendigkeit, dass KünstlerInnen im Prozess der Entwicklung von KI-Tools teilhaben.

Sounding Linz - DIE LINZER KLANGWOLKE 2020

presented by Sparkasse OÖ and LINZ AG

Kreative Kraft aus der Region, große künstlerische Expertise und besonders viel Interaktion mit der oberösterreichischen Bevölkerung - das Brucknerhaus Linz schafft gemeinsam mit heimischen KünstlerInnen und den Kooperationspartnern Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung Linz und Ars Electronica auch in außergewöhnlichen Zeiten Einzigartiges: Eine Liebeserklärung an Linz.

CNMAT ODOT

John MacCallum(USA), Jeff Lubow (USA) 

In diesem Workshop geben wir eine kurze, praktische Einführung in ODOT, eine dynamische, multiparadigmatische Programmierumgebung, die mit Open Sound Control arbeitet. ODOT wurde Anfang 2007 an der CNMAT entwickelt und hat sich zu einer leistungsstarken und robusten Suite von Werkzeugen entwickelt, die in einer Vielzahl von Kontexten nützlich sind, von der Signalverarbeitung für Gesten bis hin zur computergestützten Komposition. Während dieses Workshops werden wir den aktuellen Stand des Pakets und die Zukunft des Projekts diskutieren.

The QuBits VR Space

Jon Kulpa

Jon Kulpa is available to host a live online demonstration/performance of QuBits VR. The QuBits project is a virtual reality (VR) environment built by the composer that offers an expanded medium for musical experience with integrated space and visuals.  The environment was designed to explore a musical aesthetic valuing sound mass, spatial sound, evolving sound, and algorithmically generated sonic structures.  The user of the VR system plays a key role in shaping these musical elements.  The user first discovers what behaviors are possible through exploration and chance encounters.  They can then shape each discovered behavior with nuance if they choose.  The system provides a unique experience each time it is run.  The sounds are a mix of real world sampled sound, granular synthesis, and real-time generated synthetic sound.

The Garden of Curiosity

Mariano Sardón (AR), Mariano Sigman (AR/ES), Marcos Trevisán (AR), Bruno Mesz (AR), Intercambios Transorgánicos (AR), Sebastian Tedesco (AR), Leandro Garber (AR), Tomás Ciccola (AR), Lucía Kuschnir (AR), Josefina Schmipp (AR), Viviana Ramos Di Tommaso (AR), Diego De Benedetto (AR), Maximiliano Perez (AR)

The Garden of Curiosity is a “visual and sound objects” web support scenario. By clicking on specific objects, visitors can access audiovisual content corresponding to different Art-Science research projects linked to Muntref Arte y Ciencia. 

Performance of CORAIL

Edmund Campion

There is no pre-defined score for CORAIL (CORAL). CORAIL is a software environment that performs audio analysis of an incoming live signal that generates and organizes sound through the computer and the CORAIL algorithms. Persistence inside any one environment causes the program to move toward greater sound generation and machine autonomy.

ORCHIDEA with Composer and Lead Researcher at CNMAT

Carmine Cella

Carmine Cella is available to host a live online demonstration/workshop for ORCHIDEA, a framework for static and dynamic computer-assisted music orchestration. Orchestration consists largely of choosing combinations of sounds, instruments, and timbres that support the narrative of a piece of music. The ORCHIDEA project assists composers during the orchestration process by automatically searching for the best combinations of orchestral sounds to match a target sound, after embedding it in a high-dimensional feature space.

ALICE, ALICES UNCHAINED, and THE FLOWER MATRIX

Edmund Campion and Claudia Hart

ALICE, ALICES UNCHAINED, and THE FLOWER MATRIX is a long-term collaborative project between media artist Claudia Hart and composer Edmund Campion (CNMAT). Since 2013, they have collaborated on the ALICES project, a series of artworks, loosely connected to Alice in Wonderland, and appearing through the years as a series of pieces that migrate from performance-based multi-media theatre, video, gallery installations, to virtual reality environments. This film documents the history of the on-going project with excerpts from several of the works along with interviews with the artists and collaborators.

PLA(N)Tform – Growing, Sensing and Making Kin-Ship

Virtual BioSensing project group

Online exhibition of artistic biosensing experiments in virtual space and at BioDesign Lab HfG Karlsruhe

Live Performances in occasion of the AIxMusic Opening ceremony

Edmund Campion, CORAIL with Steve Adams of the Rova Saxophone Quartet, and Andrew Blanton, WAVEGUIDE, Claudia Hart, Edmund Campion

Edmund Campion, CORAIL with Steve Adams of the Rova Saxophone Quartet, and Andrew Blanton, WAVEGUIDE, Claudia Hart, Edmund Campion WAVEGUIDE - 2017 - percussion, distributed audio and electronics: Music composition and performance by Andrew Blanton  Text by Yvette Granata  Composition and software by Andrew Blanton  Special thanks to Neal Riley for technical support.  CORAIL - version 2020 - improvising saxophonist and interactive computer system: Composition and computer environment design by Edmund Campion, Director, CNMAT  Tenor Saxophone by Steve Adams  Software contributions by Manuel Poletti, Matthew Wright, Edmund Campion (and a host of others)  This concert is being streamed live from the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) and made possible by CNMAT Researcher and Technical Director, Jeremy Wagner

Forest Garden Greenhouse Concert

Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits / RIXC with Platons Buravickis, Ivo Taurins, Lauris Smits, Daniel Hengst

Live concert for 'plants and people' from Riga, RIXC Fields Residency greenhouse.

Sun Sun (2020)

Konantü (Courtney Smith & Iván Navarro)

In these dark pandemic times, Sun Sun invites us to invoke the sun and its light through an interactive poetry game that defies syntax logics, imagining new ones under a limited series of 8 words and their mutual combinations. The exhibition includes a set of 64 cards to print and play at home, a selection of songs that are related to the sun and videos to demonstrate and exemplify how the game goes.

CALM #2 | Decomposition (2020)

José Bidegain (CL), Futuro Fósil (CL)

Performative installation that reconfigures the value of the parts that constitute us as a living ecosystem. From the micro-political action of the arts and the organic macro of the fungi kingdom, this transmedial live experience uses sound to create new perspectives for physical and spatial perception.

Cairo is Data

Cairotronica (EG)

A film that shows Egypt through the eyes of 6 emerging new media artists sharing their grounds for inspiration. Their works that they are currently developing navigate the peculiarities, tensions and challenges that come at the intersection of technology, business, culture, and society.

FEMeeting Seeds

The seeds of our garden, the aromatic herbs and giant sequoias growing within FEMeeting the year throughout, are the members of our worldwide community. This part of our garden’s program includes video testimonies, images and sounds expressing the character and souls of some of the extraordinary women working today in art, science and technology.

A trip to the island

Alessandra Burotto (CL) / Paula Lopez Wood (CL) /Víctor Mazón Gardoqui (ES/DE) / Alfredo Prieto (CL) / Gerd Sielfeld (CL) / Nicolas Spencer (CL/AT) / Terra Ignota

An artistic, geological, archaeological and historical research trip into the southernmost continental island in the world before Antarctic; Cape Horn.

Achæoscillator

Víctor Mazón Gardoqui (ES/DE), Nicolas Spencer (CL/AT)

Achæoscillator displays the drastic weather conditions of the southernmost island in the world on a virtualized representation of the end/beginning of the Americas. A one-person experience, where the research presents traces and connections between the ancestors of the Yagán community, the Kawesqar and Selk’nam and the Antarctic, Scotia and South America continental plates, offering an inestimable and uncontrollable source of Gaia's power.

EBRIPHON / THE SHIP SYMPHONY

​Christine Hinterkörner (AT), Patrik Huber (AT)

Wie klingen eigentlich Frachtschiffe? Für die international tätige und in Linz lebende Künstlerin Christine Hinterkörner jedenfalls so faszinierend, dass sie aus Geräuschen eines tonnenschweren Metallfrachters in ein spektakuläres Werk komponierte, welches sie mit ihrem Künstlerkollegen Patrik Huber umsetzte.

Interview with Jonathan Parsons and Matthew Sleeth

Matthew Sleeth, Jonathan Parsons, Lubi Thomas

In this interview, the Artist Matthew Sleeth will be joined by his producing partner and Experimenta Artistic Director Jonathan Parsons.