MENGI presents a special night of forward-thinking electronic music.

Doors 19:30 | Tickets 2.500 kr

hexorcismos - SEMILLA A.I. DIVINATIONS:

𝔥𝔢𝔵𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔬𝔰 is currently a guest artist researcher at the Intelligent Instruments Lab, developing SEMILLA A.I. a neural audio synthesizer whose interface uses boleomancy, or divination through corn throwing, as a way to interact with the latent space of a generative artificial neural network. For his performance at MENGI, he will make use of SEMILLA A.I. for the first time in a live performance through a divination ritual.

𝔥𝔢𝔵𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔬𝔰 crafts an uncanny link between ancient and state-of-the-art sound technologies channeled through a critical decolonial theory lens in the context of contemporary electronic music, A.I. and the sonic arts. His work has been presented in Ars Electronica, MUTEK México, Transart Festival, MUTEK: AI Art Lab Montréal, Elektron Musik Studion, CTM Festival: Music Makers Hacklab, CalArts, Royal Academy of Music Stockholm, among others.

http://hexorcismos.bandcamp.com

http://instagram.com/hexorcismos

Jack Armitage:

I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Intelligent Instruments Lab. I have a doctorate in Media and Arts Technologies from Queen Mary University of London, where I studied in Prof. Andrew McPherson's Augmented Instruments Lab. During my PhD I was a Visiting Scholar at Georgia Tech under Prof. Jason Freeman. Before then, I was a Research Engineer at ROLI after graduating with a BSc in Music, Multimedia & Electronics from the University of Leeds. My research interests include embodied interaction, craft practice and design cognition. I also produce, perform and live code music as Lil Data, as part of the PC Music record label.

https://iil.is/people#jack-armitage