What is computer-based composing?
What is computer-generated composing?
Does computer-generated composing exist at all?
How much technology does production need?
How much technology does the live show need?
WTF is AI?
WTF is AI Music?
Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?
Received 2022 Music and Performing Arts Start-Grant to explore these questions. The process of my research is shown here. You wanna exchange, or just send me your song to AI jizzl it? Write me here: zandigoesai@gmail.com
My current tools:
https://magenta.tensorflow.org/studio
https://creators.aiva.ai
https://mubert.com
Abelton
Voice
Piano
Guitar
TC Helicon
SM 58 Microfone
Zoom H8
A live Impro-Perfromance with AI generated & human based music
- Supersymmetrische Kompositionstechnik by Hofstetter Kurt
I would like to explore the supersymmetrical composition technique of Hofstetter Kurt, as well as polyphonic composition techniques, to find out if there is a possibility to develop further soundscapes and sound streams.
- Opernperformance
A performance practice of the contemporary and diverse kind.
The format precedes the idea of experiencing the complete work (opera) as an open work of art in the form of a performance. It implements the confrontation of music, performing and visual arts (music, theater, art, media, dance), while the aesthetics should not disappear in the background, but rather be renegotiated. It is to be ensured that the boundless variety of compositional possibilities does not lead to a thematic sound differentiation or reduction of the material, but that a multimedia (audio-visual) Gesamtkunstwerk of the new generation is created.
You want to see an Opernperformance live? On April 12, 2023 SUPERZERO, BABY will celebrate its premiere at the Kammeroper Wien. Info & Ticket
- The Real Digital Piano
SCORE: Scharmiens Compositions Of Ridicolous Engines (AIVA: Music to Music)
The traditional piano as an electro-acoustic sound generator, enhanced with A.I. generated music. #therealdigipiano
with two partners: the voice and AI
A composition that will also be performed, exploring the critical engagement of analog and digital composing, as well as the research of new tools of composing.
An improvisation on the piano is recorded. This recording is uploaded to the platform AIVA, where the parameters remain faithful to the original key and instrument – a piano – so that the music that the platform generates by means of scores for pianists has a way to perform them.
The aim of the project is to create a composition between improvisation and generated music. It is desirable that this project can be extended with other instruments and voices.
You want to participate? The scores will be online soon!
- Improvisation Performance with AI-Music
Scharmien the Shaman & the Healing Manifestation Ensemble (Mubert: Text to Music)
This performance is a scenographic performance with musical, choreographic, improvisational and computer generated focus. A sonic-physical improvisation starting from a loop, which starts from an AI generated program that generates a text (prompts) to a music. The musicians and dancers react to this by improvising. This results in an improvisation landscape, which comes to the fore, that the loop deviates so much into the background that it is no longer relevant at all and can be switched off. The performance ends when the musicians and dancers end the improvisation.
The scene of the performance represents a dystopian world. Our world! Our home!
We are in the age of sensitivities. The world is deeply wounded. Artificial intelligence is the new god-figure that is understood as a deity „AI-men“ , in which an AI acts as a deity and determines decisions for humans via digital and automated processes. Free will has been slain and placed in captivity by those who resist these imposed decisions. A group of people want to free themselves from this captivity of the machine and initiate a resistance by summoning Scharmien the Shaman.
An improvisation performance about dependency, self-determination, identity and the ability to make decisions with an open end.
Shows will be announced soon
- Silents & AI
(AIVA: Silents to Nothing)
AIVA can generate music!
AIVA can generate sounds!
AIVA cannot generate silents!
AIVA cannot generate gravitational waves!
Silents & AI at NO MUSIC DAY 2022
- Silent.Opera
(NightCafe: Text to Image)
The two artists Scharmien Zandi and S.Myselle collaborate for the Silent.Opera. An AI-based opera through images and composition of the Opernperformance DIONE.
In the Republic of Užupis, Lithuania the Minister of Culture and Innovation Gleb Divov will present Silent.Opera as the opening highlight for No Music Day 2021 and in Vienna the work will be screen at C’QUENCE (7th, Burggasse 106). Digital Premiere at 10 am on 21st November 2021
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Supported by The Penkiln Burn, iAKW and the Republic of Užupis
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