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SOUNDING LIFEWORLD

BERKE CAN ÖZCAN   &   KORAY TAHIROĞLU

The Sounding Lifeworld explores what’s possible when an artificial intelligence model applied to a musical instrument and communicates with the musicians within a flow that is tailored to the variance and diversities of the social actions of all the actors in a new lifeworld.

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P E R F O R M A N C E S
2022; Ars Electronica Festival, Linz

Lost Wallet

AI Musical Instrument, Assembling, Composing

Since the year 2020, musician / composer / artist, Berke Can Özcan, and researcher / musician Koray Tahiroğlu have shared ideas and knowledge in what has become the first joint-project, exploring a whole new range of musical possibilities. The resulting concept, in which Özcan and Tahiroğlu jointly create a sounding lifeworld using percussive drum loop modulations and an AI model, has been explored in studio sessions in Istanbul during March 2022. Studio sessions turned into a continuous state of playing, opening up new variety of musical demands other than they only had imagined was possible. These sessions provided a state of transformation to a new sounding lifeworld with non-rigid but identifable musical events followed by ever shifting new sounds with timber-changes in a multi-dimensional sonic-latent space.

The Sounding Lifeworld challenges AI powered musical instrument’s potential to re-shape its idiomatic features, discovering new ways of playing that transcends musical expectations, but still provides delicate relationships of symbiosis that appear between human or non-human actors. In this new lifeworld, we perceive symbiosis as a state for close inter- action between all actors in which dependence and interdependence relationships come into play to achieve musical experience as a mutual benefit. It implies a deeper relationship as well as a shared understanding of the autonomous actions of all the actors through a process of social interaction.