Music Improvisation and Composition with Co-Creative AI Agents "Somax2"
- with Marco Fiorini
IRCAM Somax2 (ERC REACH)
Date：2024/04/15（Mon）
13:00 - 14:45: introduction to Somax2 and the REACH project co-creative tools
15:00 - 16:45: Somax2 concepts and demo
18:00: concert (divided into short impro pieces with different small configurations with the participants: solos/duos/trios)
・Marco Fiorini - Improvisation with Electric Guitar and Somax2
・Hyun-Mook Lim and Nicolas Brochec - Improvisation with Piano and Somax2
・Hyun-Mook Lim and Suguru Goto - Composition for Piano and Somax2
Venue：Tokyo University of the Arts, Senju Campus, Lecture Room 2 & Hall 7
Description
The following is intended to be a pedagogical workshop on artistic/scientific creation and research that is part of the framework of the European Research Council REACH Project (Raising Co-Creativity in Cyber-Human Musicianship).
This is an ongoing project at the IRCAM – STMS Lab in Paris and directed by Gérard Assayag (IRCAM research director and head researcher of the Music Representations team), which involves the development of software for co-improvisation through artificial intelligence computer agents, science dissemination, and artistic creation, in order to apply these new technologies in real performance contexts in a concrete way.
This workshop will present Somax2, an application for improvisation and musical composition, and it will focus on its concepts, UI, control, learning, architectural aspects and musical scenarios. Concrete musical examples with Somax2 will be demonstrated, as the workshop will end with a demo and a musical performance in which participants will be able to join together and create a short set of improvised music.
REACH: Raising Co-Creativity in Cyber-Human Musicianship
https://www.stms-lab.fr/projects/pages/reach
Somax2
Bio
Marco Fiorini is an Italian musician and researcher dedicated to improvisation and new forms of musical expression, with a mixed artistic and scientific background.
He graduated in Sound and Music Computing (MSc) at Aalborg University in Copenhagen, in Jazz Guitar (BA) and Electronic Music (MA) at the Conservatory of Bologna and in Computer Engineering (BSc) at the University of Bologna.
He is currently part of the Music Representation team at IRCAM, where he is engaged in research related to the REACH project, in particular on the co-creative improvisation software Somax2, and is exploring new forms of interaction in improvised music with artificial agents as part of a PhD thesis at Sorbonne Université in Paris.
He works on artistic research projects together with musicians such as Jöelle Léandre, Lorenzo Colombo, Sylvain Luc, György Kurtág Jr, Jean-Marc Montera, Horse Lords and tellKujira. He has given numerous concerts, presentations and workshops in several countries, oscillating between free improvisation, spontaneous composition, sound performance and sound art and performing at prestigious improvisation and contemporary music festivals such as ManiFeste (Centre George Pompidou, Paris), Klang (Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen), Mixtur (ESMUC, Barcelona), Improtech, Le Mans Sonore.