Format
Tired Moths and Quiet Stars
Sibylle Schroer (DE)
The 'Crime Scene’ Streetlight project works with citizens and schools to research the effect of the design of street lamps on flying insect populations. Join the team at Brandenburg maker-hub Verstehbahnhof, where local teenagers will be gathering data about pollution; before touring the four Tatort Streetlight locations and learning how to identify flying insects.
Drums Radio – 2 hours live radio session per day
Aurore Balsa (FR), Delphine Dora (FR), Ambre Dourneau (FR), Romain Gaudillière (FR), Céline Jiang (FR/CN), Pauline Mikô (BE), Nina Queissner (DE), Natalia Rivera Riffo (CL), Victor Villafagne (FR)
The DDD is a conceptual analytical system where the association of three words in D creates a tridimensional investigation space. As sound matter is a mechanic wave working in three dimensions, we assign it to a tridimensional physical space. Thereby, we want to construct a autonomous reflective space where sound projects itself.
Street Spectra – Join the Streetlights Hunting!
Lucía García (ES)
Turn your smartphone into a scientific instrument using a cheap diffraction grating. The Street Spectra citizen science project lets you get surprising pictures of the colourful spectra produced by the streetlamps in your neighborhood.
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 this discussion we explode the false binary of humans and machines in the music making process, explore ways that AI systems could actually help get more humans paid rather than displace them, and discuss the necessity of artists having a seat at the table in the process of AI tool development.
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau hosted by ARS ELECTRONICA
Christa Sommerer (AT), Laurent Mignonneau (FR)
Presentation of the interactive project Homo Insectus, in cooperation with Bildrecht
Dance the distance
Ariella Vidach (IT), Claudio Prati (CH), Paolo Solcia (CH), Riccardo Santalucia (IT), Sebastiano Barbieri (IT), Francesco Luzzana (IT), Giovanni Landi (IT)
Live Guided Tour in a Dance Virtual Studio. MEET’s second project Dance the distance is a live guided tour through a virtual dance studio. Participants as avatars will be able to meet the virtual dancers and join an open rehearsal for a VR dance performance in progress.
Meet the Media Guru
William Myers (US/NL)
Within its Meet the Media Guru format, MEET presents a talk by William Myers about the emerging practice of integrating biological processes into art and digital creativity. An exhibition curator and lecturer based in Amsterdam (NL), Myers is the author of two widely acclaimed books about the intersections of design, art, and science: Biodesign and BioArt.
Sounding Linz - LINZER KLANGWOLKE 2020
presented by Sparkasse OÖ and LINZ AG
Experience creative talent from the region, great artistry, and a high level of engagement with people in Upper Austria: the Brucknerhaus Linz, together with local artists and its partners University of Art and Industrial Design Linz and Ars Electronica, is creating something unique for extraordinary times: a declaration of love for Linz.
CNMAT ODOT
John MacCallum(USA), Jeff Lubow (USA)
In this workshop, we will provide a brief, practical introduction to odot, a dynamic, multi-paradigm programming environment that operates on Open Sound Control. Developed at CNMAT beginning in 2007, odot has evolved into a powerful and robust suite of tools useful in a variety of contexts, from gesture signal processing to computer-aided composition. During this workshop, we will discuss the current state of the package and the future of the project.
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.
Synthesizing / Distancing - Video
UMPRUM, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (CZ)
Two recent installations exhibited in different locations in Prague introduce the works The Platform, by Shota Tsikoliya and David Kovařík, and Photosynthetic Landscapes, by Veronika Miškovicová, which were created at the Studio of Architecture III at UMPRUM, the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.
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.
The Platform
UMPRUM, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (CZ)
The crisis of recent months is forcing us to rethink topics that we until recently took for granted. One of them is the idea of public space as an open platform for meeting people and exchanging ideas, a space without borders that is suddenly confronted with security rules. Just as these risks first affected the public areas of airports and later social public events, now the public space in general is affected by strengthen security rules.
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.
Journey by MUNTREF Arte y Ciencia
In order to protect the public health against the spread of COVID-19, our National Government established the regulations of social, preventive and mandatory isolation. Argentine citizens must remain in their homes and may make minimum and essential outings of no more than 500 meters. In our Journey Delivery Video, students, researchers, and other participants of MUNTREF Arte y Ciencia, made a 500-meter journey walk in their close surroundings, showing fragments of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of it's different landscapes.
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
