Category: Day 06 – Monday, Oct 26
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How Machines Hear + Play / Creating TechArt
Today’s lecture was about How Machines Hear and Play. I was curiously waiting for this session, as the title caught my attention. Throughout the lecture, Hasan spoke about: The representation of ourselves on video and in photos, is broken down into pixels. We’re all just pixels on a screen! Latent face. How new technologies are…
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Tribal Energy
A demo of the track “Tribal Energy by Ayesha M Ali, Oshii Brownie and Abby Records
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Co-Created Sound Doodle We & AI. D6.
Day 6 discussions rolled around How Machines Play both music and games. I find the discussion on Game quite interesting. Google Deep mind defeated the World Champion in Go was not shocking for me, as my background in engineering I could totally conceptually think about how this can happen. I am sure as computing power…
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Sonic Tapestry & Second Language
PlayGround Once I walked past old, large, treesAnd into an old green parkI glanced at the huge, old treesHow huge they are & also dark… I returned my eyes to the playgroundThen checked my watch.. I always feel , sound wave/ambience/sonic tapestry is my 2nd language, before learning how to feed /nurture/culture the machine ,I…
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Ideation with Fellow Artists!
Some interesting dialogues and information that helped me formulate my ideas so I am compiling them here for a future reference. Thank you fellow collaborators, Be Fantastic Team and off course Hassan @curiouswala for helping throughout the process.
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COUCOU WOO WOO.
Experiments with BeatBlender and CouCou ML music programmes. I found coucou the most intuitive of the 2 programmes which is an important factor for me when making work – I am not a sketcher or planner – unless I have to work out dimensions or something I work really intuitively and make lots of written notes…
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Pixel Perplexity
What’s in your mind bot?Give me a peak.
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Bach Bash
All my work – analog as well as digital, physical and virtual have included sound design. For live performances the main conversation has been over the music and for the films I create – music is the parallel story that adds another dimension to the narrative. I mostly collaborate on the music with composers, sound…
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Mute the robot
Thoughts during this exercise — What is the role of AI here? Is it learning the musical preferences of the general population? Does it have enough data of the ‘general’ population? Is it fixing and filling the gaps to create something pleasing? Who decides what is pleasing? Has it learned based on the available data…
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AI excels where I fail
In the field of composition, I find myself lost as to how to make things work. Even though I do work a lot with sounds and ‘music’ for my installations and performances; without a formal exposure to music and its theories I struggle to ‘compose’ in its traditional sense. Experimenting with a couple of things…
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Filling with Bach
The world of sound is a complete mystery to me. I find it fascinating how people think and create in sound. This exercise gave sound a visual interface – kind of bridging this gap for me. And the most fascinating aspect was having Bach fix my tone deaf composition.
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“The robots are working…”
We’ve spoken a lot about the connection between robots and forced labour (the word “robot” is taken directly from the Czech word for work). We’ve asked how ethical it is to ask machines to do unpaid work for us. We’ve wondered if these machines have fun while learning to play human games, or if it’s…
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Dilated Disco
Experiments from todays session, tbc… https://magenta.tensorflow.org/ https://magenta.tensorflow.org/coconetconet
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Bach Beats
My first EP is out now! Made with CouCou , BleatBlender and accidentally recording.
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