Sharing a performance space with the Other
The piece is performed through a novel collaborative environment in which the visitor of the exhibition becomes the performer who is not only free to move and interact with the instrumental sounds of the composition, but where her decisions contribute to the sonic outcome of the composition. This interactive music system is designed for co-located collaboration with AI deep learning algorithm and provides embodied and spatial opportunities to exhibition visitors for musical exploration. The interactive music system also utilises spatialisation of sound, which occurs through 6 surround active speakers.
Sharing a performance space brings awareness of the others and their presence, which is reinforced by being able to control composition’s sounds through performer’s spatial in- teraction. Space and interaction with AI as the other are therefore deeply interconnected in the performance of this composition.
Composition provides a journey through the position of the visitor in the installation space. The composition explores what’s possible when the visitor follows the music as a subordinate companion that clarifies and densifies the atmosphere around it with very abstract sound creation at the ever-shifting border between new sounds and a constantly reinvented composition with the other AI. The soundworld of the piece is in large part deter- mined by digital samples manipulated through granular synthesiser and harmonic structures of the waveshaping synthesis running in Pure Data environment.
