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AIxMusic Workshops (Sunday)

In recent years, the academic interest in applying deep learning to creative tasks such as generating text, images or music has drastically increased. These workshops offer everyone the opportunity to try out the AI systems used for making and playing music.

Voices from AI in Experimental Improvisation

Tomomi Adachi (JP), Andreas Dzialocha (DE), Marcello Lussana (IT)

Voices from AI in Experimental Improvisation is a project by Tomomi Adachi, Andreas Dzialocha and Marcello Lussana. They built an AI called “tomomibot” which learned Adachi’s voice and improvisation techniques using neural network algorithms. The performance raises questions about the logic and politics of computers in relation to human culture.

Automatic Music Generation with Deep Learning

Ali Nikrang (AT)

In recent years, there has been a great deal of academic interest in applying Deep Learning to creative tasks such as generating texts, images, or music. This workshop focuses on current approaches to music generation. We will also discuss questions like: What makes musical data so special? What can music enthusiasts expect from these models? And how do listeners accept music composed by AI?

ULTRACHUNK (unfortunately canceled)

Jennifer Walshe (IE), Memo Akten (TR)

What are the implications of using your voice to improvise with a neural network? Composer Jennifer Walshe and artist Memo Akten present ULTRACHUNK (2018), a neural network trained on a corpus of Walshe’s solo vocal improvisations. Here, Walshe wrangles with an artificially intelligent duet partner – one that reflects a distorted version of her own improvisatory language and individual voice.

Looped Improvisation

Ali Nikrang (AT), Michael Lahner (AT)

We generated several short sequences that are played as input in a loop. As a result, the application will continue to create new outputs despite the same input.

Nokia Bell Labs

Domhnaill Hernon (US)

An interactive experience fusing music and image. Users’ movements are transformed into a dynamically designed audio-visual experience through the Bell Labs Motion Engine.

A-MINT

Alex Braga (IT)

There is nothing simpler yet more complex than a human being. The challenge of Alex Braga is to create a new and organic kind of sound with the aid of a revolutionary new instrument called A-MINT. It is an adaptive artificial intelligence working in real-time for the artist and enabling any musician to explore infinite creativity.

NOISA

Koray Tahiroglu (FI/TR)

NOISA, the Network of Intelligent Sonic Agents, is an interactive music system that monitors the performer’s actions and provides autonomous and non-intrusive counteractions. In this co-creative music performance, intelligent sonic agents are designed to support the music performance by providing responses that encourage and maintain the communication and motivation of the performer with the NOISA system.

Fantasie#1

Quadrature (DE) in collaboration with Christian Losert (DE)

Via a radio telescope in front of the venue, the noise of the skies is performed by a self-playing organ. Little by little, neural networks take control over the organ and seek out familiar harmonies in the otherworldly noises. Ideas of melodies evolve as the artificial intelligence begins to fantasize about familiar tunes in these alien sounds.

Fossil Futures

Nora Al-Badri (DE), Jan Nikolai Nelles (DE)

"Oskar" is what Germans affectionately call "their" Dino, the world's largest dinosaur skeleton, which is at home in Berlin's Museum of Natural History. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles tried to find out where it originally came from and how it finally landed here. They received little information from the public authorities, but with the help of leaked data, artificial intelligence and 3D scans, the history of the fossil could be reconstructed. The trail led to the south of Tanzania. Under German colonial rule, tons of petrified bones were found there and brought to Germany. Using state-of-the-art technology – including a "Virtual Reality Museum" – Fossil Future poses the question of stolen identity, cultural heritage and public property.