Creating interactive audio systems with Bela
Andrew McPherson (UK)

The workshop will provide an introduction to Bela, an open-source embedded hardware platform for creating interactive audio systems. Participants will get a hands-on introduction to building circuits and programming using Bela, following a series example projects to introduce the basis of building real-time audio systems.

Legal framework for STARTS Collaborations

FRI 6.9. | 15:15 – 16:45 Based on successful examples from realized projects, panel participants discuss the suitable conditions for a legal framework for interdisciplinary collaboration projects, including new business models, different legal options and intellectual property rights.

In Posse
Charlotte Jarvis (UK)

SAT 7.9. | 15:45 – 16:15 In Posse is a work in progress. Artist Charlotte Jarvis is collaborating with Prof Susana Chuva de Sousal Lopes in Leiden, Biotehna / Kersnikova Institute in Ljubljana and MU Gallery Eindhoven to make the world’s first “female” semen. Workshop participants are invited to help Charlotte form the project at this early stage.

AI-Pop. Walking sound-knowledge-base
Werner Jauk (AT)

It is the bodily experience of sound that determines its structuring: sound brings the body in motion leading to e-motion generating sound – interaction leads to a collective and collectivizing dynamic soundstream of being “communis.”

Expert Tour: HybridNature
Dr. Friedrich Schwarz (AT)

The Expert Tour HybridNature explores this exciting question: Where are the limits of our knowledge? Are lichens plants or fungi? The focus is on the plants, the actual “rulers” of this world.

Women reclaiming AI
Birgitte Aga (NO), Coral Manton (UK)

SAT 7.9. | 13:00 – 14:30 Women Reclaiming AI invites you to take part in a workshop designing an alternative AI Voice Assistant created by a growing community of self-identifying women (trans, intersex and cis) and all nonbinary, agender and gender variant people.

Recommenders and Intelligent Tools in Music Creation: Why, Why Not, and How?
Christine Bauer (AT), Peter Knees (AT), Richard Vogl (AT), Hansi Raber (AT)

This workshop will highlight the role of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning-supported composition, and Recommender Systems in the process of music creation. We discuss their reception and prevalent image among professional music producers and creators, including the potential threats these technologies pose to their artistic originality. We contrast this view by emphasizing the power of AI-technology for a democratization of music making, by lowering the entrance barrier of music creation.

Digital Musical Interactions
Koray Tahiroğlu (Fl/TR)

Today digital technologies and advanced computational features, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) tools, are shaping our relationship with music as well as enabling new possibilities of utilising new musical instruments and interfaces. In this workshop, we question, what does our relationship with music and musical instruments look like today?

How can we make more liveable cities?
300.000 Km/s (ES)

SAT 7.9. | 10:00 – 11:00 Arising from the experience of S+T+ARTS Prize winning project- Ciutat Vella's land-use plan, this workshop is open to a wide range of urban agents with different scientific, artistic, political and technical backgrounds to reflect on several cutting-edge questions in European cities.

Computer Music Design and Research – IRCAM Workshop
Jérôme Nika (FR), Daniele Ghisi (IT)

Computer music designer, musician, and researcher Jérôme Nika (FR) will present the generative agents / software instruments DYCI2 that he develops in collaboration with Ircam, and in interaction with expert improvisers. These agents offer a continuum of strategies going from pure autonomy to meta-composition thanks to an abstract “scenario” structure.