audio

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?

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.

Amadeus Code
Taishi Fukuyama (JP)
Amadeus Code is a songwriting assistant powered by artificial intelligence.

0W1 Audio
Jean Beauve (FR)
Designed by Sacha Lakic, 0W1 D5 Master is the first portable IoT audio system that features truly “life-like” sound. As an IoT, it also embeds a number of music-centric contextual experiences.

Reeps One x Dadabots ft. Second Self AI
Reeps One (UK)
Second Self is an art and science collaboration between Reeps One, Dada Bots and the E.A.T. program at Nokia Bell Labs. The collaboration is a live performance piece designed to integrate machine learning, the human voice, and generative audio as a practical artistic tool and to raise awareness about machine learning beyond the academic, technological and engineering demographics via the medium of film and performance.

MANTRAcks and Sonic Fields: A VirtuAural Duology Part 1 – untitled #352
Francisco López (ES)
Industry and nature are the opposing starting points for this long-term sound meta-piece, which originally consisted of two parts. The ten-channel audio installation untitled #352 was specially adapted for the attic of the Ursulinenkirche: Complex layers of sound, recorded in Fontenay-sous-Bois near Paris, develop further and are distilled into expansive electronic mantras (“MANTRAcks”).