Music

STARTS Day

The STARTS Day focuses on the STARTS Initiative and offers insights into collaborative practices at the intersection of art, technology, science and industry. In different discursive formats and presentations, extraordinary examples from this field are presented and their implementations, methods and impacts identified.

AIxMusic Panels

Renata Schmidtkunz (DE)

Renata Schmidtkunz hosts four panel discussions in the summer refectory, prominently featuring Josef Penninger, Sophie Wennerscheid, Amanda Cox, Markus Poschner, and others.

Walking Lectures: Calculated Sensation

Anthony Moore (UK/FR), Siegfried Zielinski (DE)

3 stations, 6 topics – Moore’s and Zielinski’s expanded lecture is an invitation to travel in a time machine: a move through the Deep Time of Acoustics and Hearing - between calculation, sensation and endless variants of the Art of Combination.

VALIS

Digital Research Unit in Art and Design at the Esad Saint-Étienne/Ensba Lyon

For this first presentation in the framework of Ars Electronica, we chose to explore concepts of “science-fiction,” considered as a domain that provides forms but also imaginary elements to be renewed. The exhibition presented here is therefore a first approach which summons various references to fields such as archeology, music, robotics or video games, passing through several experiments with media (code, 3D, sound, performance, deep learning …). VALIS “Vast Living Intelligent System” is a reference to the late work of Philip K. Dick.

AIxMusic Dialogues

In four panel discussions on Saturday, experts will address topics such as creativity, "bio art" and gaming in relation to the use and research of artificial intelligence in music.

AIxMusic Day

Artificial intelligence is changing our understanding of music. Starting with a series of talks, the AIxMusic Matinée invites universities and institutions share their research and present an overview about what it is happening today in those incubators. The lecture series also deals with the massive changes in the music industry, triggered by the developments of the AI and the latest trends in the music market.

Conversations with Renata Schmidtkunz

Renata Schmidtkunz (DE)

Renata Schmidtkunz hosts four panel discussions in the summer refectory, prominently featuring Josef Penninger, Sophie Wennerscheid, Oliviero Toscani, Amanda Cox, Markus Poschner, and others. The topic is dedicated to the role of science and research. Social acceptance in relation to current AI research will be discussed as well as the new artistic possibilities opening up due to AI applications.


BLOBBOX

Sebastian Löbbers (DE)

Using computers, smartphones and other electronic devices has become a crucial part of daily life. But how do we interact with our devices? How might they become a more intuitive extension of ourselves? BLOBBOX is an attempt to imagine an alternative narrative where hand recognition becomes the predominant interface.

Ολοι

Antonella Nonnis (IT)


Ολοι (pronounced Olly) from the Greek “all” is a tangible sonic interface made in felt and stretch lycra. The idea was that of creating an orchestra where different instruments are activated by pulling the colored stretch lycra. Each instrument plays a different scale of notes. When the lycra strings are pulled together, the sounds form a soothing composition and the users are able to create different harmonies. The work was developed to stimulate social interactions during play time with Ολοι for a group of five minimally to non-verbal children with autism who like music.

AIxMusic Applications

Jean Beauve (FR), 0W1 Audio/Oleg Stavitsky (RU), Endel / Florian Richling (AT), Fortunes / Ivan Turkalj (HR/AT), Music Traveler / Taishi Fukuyama (JP), Amadeus Code

SUN 8.9. | 16:15 – 17:30