Bernard Lubat improvises with OMax, the virtual improvising agent at Roulette during the ImproTech festival.
The ImproTech Paris - NYC 2012 workshop (May 16-18 2012) is dedicated to the exploration of the links between musical improvisation and digital technologies.
Gathering researchers and artists from both research & creation scenes, it favors the idea of using digital intelligence as a source of continuous and sophisticated creation, in a complex interaction with live musicians, as opposed to mere decorative digital effects.
Distributed over 3 sites (Roulette, NYU, Columbia) the event combines concerts, presentations, demos and workshops and features such great artists as Roscoe Mitchell, Steve Coleman, George Lewis, Geri Allen, Bernard Lubat, Margaret Lancaster, Steve Lehman, Vijay Iyer, Mari Kimura, Esther Lamneck, Raphael Imbert, Lori Freedman, Brice Martin, Laurent Mariusse, Sylvain Roux, Les Emeudroïdes and many others (see the List of participants and the Events Schedule .)
http://repmus.ircam.fr/improtechpny
The OMax project is based at Ircam with collaborations from UCSD, CNSMDP and EHESS. OMax is a technology that allows a virtual musical agent to learn straight from the musicians playing live and to develop its own musical discourse in dialog with the musicians based on stylistic and timbral imitation.
See http://omax.ircam.fr
OMax the virtual improviser is an Ircam / RepMus Team project, with contributinons by G. Assayag, G. Bloch, M. Chemillier, B. Lévy, S. Dubnov, L. Bonnasse-Gahot
