Music
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?
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.
Bruckner Percussion plays Xénakis
Leonhard Schmidinger (AT), Fabian Homar (AT), Vladimir Petrov (BG)
Iannis Xénakis (1922-2001) composed Okho for three djembe players. The premiere took place on October 20, 1989 on the occasion of the Paris Autumn Festival. Our interpretation deviates from the original instrumentation and makes use of an extended percussion setup of the kind Xénakis himself uses in his solo piece Rebond B for percussion.
ForTunes
Florian Richling (AT)
ForTunes is an all-in-one insights app for a new generation of music creators.
The Neuromusic Education Simulator (NES) Project
Wiener Sängerknaben (AT), Gerald Wirth (AT)
In cooperation with developmental psychologists and pedagogues, Professor Gerald Wirth developed his engagement-centric teaching methodology. The use of the Neuromusic Education Simulator, based on the Wirth method and applying VR & AR, allows teachers and students to practice, gain experience and receive feedback, including talent and deficiency detection (ADHD).
Organ Music in the Field of Tension Between Inspiration, Compostition and Improvisation
Klaus Sonnleitner (AT)
Klaus Sonnleitner’s organ concert takes the audience from Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to French sound worlds and improvisations in the spirit of Anton Bruckner.
Orogenesis: Spacial Piano Improvisation Inspired by the Formation of Mountains
Rupert Huber (AT)
When two continental plates collide, one becomes subducted beneath the other. Rupert Huber´s piano improvisation represents this process by putting sound to the formation of an imaginary mountain.
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.
SHOJIKI “Play Back” Curing Tapes
Muku Kobayashi (JP), Mitsuru Tokisato (JP)
Rewinding curing tapes with a motor. The performers use a switch to control the rotation direction of the motor and its ON/OFF. Each time the tape is rewound on to the motor axis, it makes peeling sounds and continuant sounds.
