UnSuPerviSed Showcase JUNE 2021
Zakiya Leeming
"Sad Dog Eating"
Sad Dog Eating is the latest in a series of iterative pieces created in collaboration with clarinettists Laurel Saunders and Grace White. Led by the findings at each stage of our creative partnership, we explored physical, acoustic and psychological aspects of the clarinet’s sound possibilities through open and graphic scores.
Hongshuo Fan
"Metamorphosis"
Metamorphosis is a real-time interactive audio-visual composition for one human performer and two artificial intellectual performers. Three performers will start by playing the same virtual ancient Chinese percussion instrument: Bianqing (磬).
Vicky Clarke
"Aura Machine"
A sound object has an aura. Taking the starting point of the sound object, a sonic fragment or atom of authentic matter, what happens to this materiality when processed by a neural network? What new sonic materials and aesthetics will emerge? Can the AI system project newly distilled hybrid forms or will the process of data compression result in lo-fi statistical imitation?
Chris Rhodes
"Semiconductor"
Semiconductor is a piece for virtual reality (VR), game-engine (mixed reality – MR), live electronics and performer. The piece is performed by a physical performer wearing biometric sensors on their arms, in order to directly interact with digital worlds (in both VR and MR), and is split into two movements.
Tywi J H Roberts
"Blodeuwedd"
Blodeuwedd is a hybrid chorale for four female voices, composed in combination with audio generated by a machine learning algorithm (sampleRNN) trained on a dataset of sampled owl sounds, non-verbal soprano singing, and spoken Welsh. It also makes use of ‘The Big Sleep’.
Ellen Sargen
"You May Own Us But We Are Going To Inform On You"
This is a piece written in collaboration with Sarah Watts and uses machine learning code PRiSM SampleRNN with the aid of Christopher Melen.
Robert Laidlow
"Rose Green"
I’m fascinated by the trend of constantly training new machine learning models rather than plumbing the depths of what we have already – a trend extending beyond art to major commercial uses of this technology.
Tasos Asonitis
"Symbiosis As A Metaphor"
he term "black box of Artificial Intelligence" is used to describe a part of the learning process of a neural network that is not fully transparent to the user. This elusive element of machine learning is the focus of "Symbiosis as a Metaphor".