Strømvæsener: What Does an Ecosystem of Artists Sound Like?

By composer Casper Hernández Cordes My contribution to the Gravel Art 7 exhibition in Sorø is a series of small electroacoustic sound sculptures that I call Strømvæsener (Current Beings). These are small, autonomous electronic organisms that try to capture the essence of the participating artists' thoughts and works. While my previous projects for Gravel Art…

VLOG 4: Nearing True Machine-Musician Interaction? Exploring Rhythm through Fractal Proportions

We are nearing our objective of enabling our computer to interact with a live musician in a manner that closely resembles the interaction with another musician. In this fourth vlog, we explore the user interface developed by Samuel Peirce-Davies, which employs the ml.markov object to learn music from MIDI files. Our aim is to extend…

Art as consumption vs artists engaging in real life collective processes

This is (part of) my speech at the seminar The Role of Culture in a Sustainable Society – Sustainability in Art and Cultural Projects, Helsinki, Finland, 2015-09-23 ( I start by reciting my blogpost What Makes us a Collective? explaining the model above, and then continue ... ) " ... This model stresses the circular relationship between producing…