The concert revolves around the concept of human/machine communication and the different languages through which these two entities can interact.
In the first piece, Languages.csv, the audience is free to move among the speakers, which diffuse synthetic sounds generated by the sonification of the syntactic and lexical characteristics of various programming languages—phonemes and morphemes of the languages used by artificial intelligences. The next piece, IA Quartet, features an algorithm that composes and displays musical symbols in real time on a screen in the form of a dynamic score, interpreted by four acoustic musicians. This is followed by (z[I.A]-2-[A.I]), a conversation between two silent performers, where the laptops analyze facial expressions and act as proxies for human communication. In AI (TK_AI), two human performers attempt to decode the sounds generated in the first piece into spoken language to create a nursery rhyme. This nursery rhyme is then revisited in r u ok, where a female voice asks a laptop questions about emotions and feelings.
The final piece, POV, merges a human performer and their virtual double in a VR space controlled by an artificial intelligence, which is guided by the anthropomorphic gestures of a physical body.
- F. Seggioli – Languages.csv for viollin, sax, percussion, soprano and electronics
- G. Cattaneo – Patire for dancer and electronics
- D. Bardi/M. Rotondella – [I.A]-2-[A.I] for two laptop perfomers
- M. Leone – IA Quartet for violin, sax, soprano, percussion and electronics
- P. Montoya/P. Dinapoli – TK_AI for two laptop perfomers
- O. Escudero – POV for sax and electronics
- S. Shafer – r y ok for soprano and electronics
Concert for the Digital Week organized in collaboration with AGON
