#4317 Music with AI and Interactive Electronics
Hear state-of-the art of music with AI and interactive electronics from Holly Herndon, Ash Koosha, Julianna Barwick, Dan Tepfer, and producer Floating Spectrum. Plus, listen to music made during the early days of the intersection of human and computer by American electronic composer David Behrman, and Lejaren Hiller in collaboration with Leonard Issacson.
Listen to a portion of the 1956 composition for string quartet by Lejaren Hiller, in collaboration with Leonard Issacson, programmed for the ILLIAC I computer at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. There’s also not-so-new human/computer music by record producer and American electronic composer, David Behrman. Hear some of his musical feedback loop – “On the Other Ocean.”
Listen to music from Berlin-based composer Holly Herndon and her latest record, PROTO, which relies on an electronic pop choir comprised of both human and A.I. voices. The human voices - which might sound alternately like shape note folk-singing or a Bulgarian women’s chorus – are live-processed and blended. The vocal ensemble also includes Spawn, a modified gaming computer created with long-time collaborator Mathew Dryhurst and the programmer and artist Jules LaPlace. Spawn was trained to identify and reinterpret unfamiliar sounds in group call-and-response singing sessions using as reference the religious gatherings from Holly's upbringing in East Tennessee. Listen to selections from PROTO as well as music by composer-vocalist Julianna Barwick from her record, Circumstance Synthesis, in collaboration with Microsoft A.I. On it, musical progressions or gestures created by Barwick – were triggered by a camera on top of a hotel in tune with the New York City sky – like the sun coming out, or a bird or airplane going by, and turned into an environmentally-responsive soundtrack.
Then, hear work by pianist and programmer Dan Tepfer in music that responds to his real-time improvisations according to “simple rules” - musical and visual algorithms that he programmed. Plus, listen to music by Berlin-based composer and audio technologist Floating Spectrum (aka Mei-Fang Liau) made by her generative sound system that turns visual data into sound - a combination of synthesizers and everyday household objects, all made by Liau herself. There’s also music by Iranian-born, London-based electronic musician Ash Koosha made with the help of an artificial intelligence tool, which he calls “Auxhumans.” And more. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4317: Music with AI and Interactive Electronics (First aired 1/13/2020)
ARTIST: Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson
WORK: Illiac Suite for String Quartet 1/4 [1:30]
RECORDING: youtube.com
SOURCE/INFO: musicainformatica.org
ARTIST: Julianna Barwick
WORK: noon [3:58]
RECORDING: Circumstance Synthesis
SOURCE: RVNGIntl.
INFO: rvng.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Holly Herndon
WORK: Eternal [4:45]
RECORDING: PROTO
SOURCE: 4AD
INFO: hollyherndon.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Holly Herndon
WORK: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt [3:11]
RECORDING: PROTO
SOURCE: 4AD
INFO: hollyherndon.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Julianna Barwick
WORK: afternoon [4:16]
RECORDING: Circumstance Synthesis
SOURCE: RVNGIntl.
INFO: rvng.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: David Behrman
WORK: On the Other Ocean [:28]
RECORDING: On the Other Ocean
SOURCE: Lovely Music CD/LP 1041
INFO: lovely.com
ARTIST: Floating Spectrum
WORK: Eruption
RECORDING: A Point Between
SOURCE: Temporary Residence
INFO: temporaryresidence.com
ARTIST: Daniel Wohl, Poliça’s Channy Leaneagh, members of yMusic and the Calder Quartet
WORK: Angel [4:28]
RECORDING: État
SOURCE: New Amsterdam Records
INFO: danielwohl.bandcamp.com/album/tat
ARTIST: Dan Tepfer
WORK: Inversion [2:49]
RECORDING: Natural Machines
SOURCE: Main Door Music
INFO: youtube.com
ARTIST: Ash Koosha
WORK: Wild Heart [3:03]
RECORDING: Return 0
SOURCE: Realms
INFO: ashkoosha.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Holly Herndon
WORK: Frontier [1:08]
RECORDING: PROTO
SOURCE: 4AD
INFO: hollyherndon.bandcamp.com
