Brice Martin and Benjamin Lévy : OMax performance at Comprovisation 2012 Workshop
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COMPROVISATIONS 2012 Improvisation Technologies for the Performing Arts at Hexagram Concordia in Montreal
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
COMPROVISATIONS - Improvisation Technologies for the Performing Arts" is a workshop during which leading researchers, artists and software developers from Europe, Asia and the Americas will discuss questions and artistic approaches in the emerging and fast-growing field of computer-assisted improvisation in Music, Theatre and Dance. As these technologies transform the aesthetics and practices of stage performance, they also engender new production modes and demand a new understanding from organizers and audiences as to what a "performance" is: a well-rehearsed repetition of a finished work where we admire the sensibility, skill and perfection of the performers ? Or is it something that happens once, just now, only for those present - where we also admire the presence of mind, the openness to context and the beauty of coincidence that lies at the bottom of all performance ? And how does the fact that computers can improvise, too, now, accompanying and guiding the live performers, change our perception of what happens in a performance ?
Over 4 days, from May 24 to 27, 2012, the invited guests at "Comprovisations" will show their work, their research and their art to each other - and will engage in searching questions that will try to understand what improvisation and performance can mean in the digital age. In invitational workshop sessions as well as in five public events, we will explore and discuss the boundaries of performance, humanity and art with some of the most innovative research-creators around the globe.
http://matralab.hexagram.ca/comprovisations2012
Comprovisation was a Sister Workshop to ImproTech Paris-New York 2012 : Improvisation & Technology, is held from May 16-18 in New York City.
http://repmus.ircam.fr/improtechpny
Check also the Native Alien Project : an complex OMax Based environment developed at Hexagram that has been played along by top performers :
http://vimeo.com/album/1717549
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
COMPROVISATIONS - Improvisation Technologies for the Performing Arts" is a workshop during which leading researchers, artists and software developers from Europe, Asia and the Americas will discuss questions and artistic approaches in the emerging and fast-growing field of computer-assisted improvisation in Music, Theatre and Dance. As these technologies transform the aesthetics and practices of stage performance, they also engender new production modes and demand a new understanding from organizers and audiences as to what a "performance" is: a well-rehearsed repetition of a finished work where we admire the sensibility, skill and perfection of the performers ? Or is it something that happens once, just now, only for those present - where we also admire the presence of mind, the openness to context and the beauty of coincidence that lies at the bottom of all performance ? And how does the fact that computers can improvise, too, now, accompanying and guiding the live performers, change our perception of what happens in a performance ?
Over 4 days, from May 24 to 27, 2012, the invited guests at "Comprovisations" will show their work, their research and their art to each other - and will engage in searching questions that will try to understand what improvisation and performance can mean in the digital age. In invitational workshop sessions as well as in five public events, we will explore and discuss the boundaries of performance, humanity and art with some of the most innovative research-creators around the globe.
http://matralab.hexagram.ca/comprovisations2012
Comprovisation was a Sister Workshop to ImproTech Paris-New York 2012 : Improvisation & Technology, is held from May 16-18 in New York City.
http://repmus.ircam.fr/improtechpny
Check also the Native Alien Project : an complex OMax Based environment developed at Hexagram that has been played along by top performers :
http://vimeo.com/album/1717549