A live orchestra performance by the London Contemporary Orchestra at the Barbican on the 31st October 2018, team created a unique audio-visual installation based around a newly developed artificial neural network which can create live visuals from music.
MUSIC
London Contemporary Orchestra and Choir
ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE
Artrendex
ART DIRECTION
Samantha Lee
Patrick Morris
SUPPORTED BY
Arts Council England
Cockayne Foundation
MUSIC TO AI CONTROL
Ben Heim
SOUND ENGINEER
Simon Hendry
CREATIVE CONSULTANT
Devin Gharakhanian
“At London’s Barbican Hall,
two impossibly difficult pieces
of music, a neural network
and a curtain.”
Title: Other World
Project: (AI) AudioVisual Performance
Place: The Barbican, London
Team +: Artrendex, LC Orchestra, Universal Assembly, Ben Heim
Role: Creative Consultant + Team Building
I had the great pleasure in working with an interdiscplinary group,that I helped put together. The london Contemporary Orchestra, along with The Universal Assembly Unit, were looking to develop an audiovisual experience using real-time sound data. We began considering different forms of neural net systems, as I helped connect and integrate Artrendex, an Artifial Intellegince company I’ve been working closely with. We worked together and experimented with various techniques in using (AI) to take the live score of the orchestra and autonomously create kinetic imagery in real-time based off of Universal Assembly’s visualization concept.It took several months to train Artrendex’s algorithm to construct organic imagery in response to the music in a seamless manner.
AICAN Test for London Contemporary Orchestra, Other World Performance.
