Intelligent Instruments Lab’s 2nd Birthday Concert
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The Intelligent Instruments Lab is two years old! Time to celebrate all our hard work with fun experimental music by fun experimental friends. The performers at this birthday event are our artist-researchers in residence; Celeste Betancur (CO/US) and Adam Pultz (DE), as well as our two PhD students Nicola Privato (IT/IS) and Victor Shepardson (US/IS), with more acts to be announced!
We invite you to join us for a celebration concert on Friday, August 25th. Doors open at 19:30 and the music will begin promptly at 20:00.
Entry free is 2.500 kr. (2.000 kr. for students, 67+ and disabled). Please contact us if you need financial support to attend the concert.
Celeste Betancur (CO/US): Pandora’s Dreams
Celeste is a musician, computer music academic but most of all enthusiastic dancer. She has been live coding for around 13 years around the world with a set of tools she built for her own sets. This time, she will be accompanied with Pandora, and we will be living one of Pandora’s Dreams…
https://www.celestebetancur.com/
Adam Pultz (DE): FAAB (feedback-actuated augmented bass)
Ambiguous textures and unstable pulses courtsey of a feedback-infested double bass.
Adam Pultz is a composer, improviser, and researcher working in the field of acoustic and electronic sound. Their work spans live performance, sound installations, sound for dance, theatre, film, multimedia, visual art, and algorithmic design. Adam has performed and exhibited work in Europe, Australia, the US, and Japan, while appearing on close to 50 albums, 4 of these being solo albums.
Victor Shepardson (US/IS) & Nicola Privato (IT/IS): Notochord Arcs & Scrambled Signals
Victor Shepardson and Nicola Privato are musicians and researchers in the Intelligent Instruments Lab. Notochord and Scramble are two generative MIDI models of our creation. Notochord has eaten all the MIDI files on the internet, while Scramble digests and regurgitates individual MIDI files and sampled snippets. We will wrangle Notochord and Scramble, struggling to make sense from their infinite capacities for nonsense. Notochord will extrude big slabs of quasi-music which will be filtered and refined by Scramble before being re-harmonized by Notochord, ad nauseum. We human operators will push buttons and frantically twiddle knobs, sweat beading on our foreheads, as our wayward creations attempt to submerge us in a swimming pool of glistening General MIDI sounds.
Jack Armitage: Gagnavera
Jack Armitage is a postdoctoral researcher in the Intelligent Instruments Lab. Gagnavera is part of Jack’s Tolvera (“number being”) series of pieces inspired by artificial life and self-organising systems.
Plus more artists to be announced!
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2ja ára afmælistónleikar Intelligent Instruments Lab
The Intelligent Instruments Lab er tveggja ára! Tími til kominn að fagna með skemmtilegri tilraunatónlist. Flytjendur kvöldsins verða Celeste Betancur (CO/US) og Adam Pultz (DE), auk tveggja doktorsnema okkar Nicola Privato (IT/IS) og Victor Shepardson (US/IS), auk annarra sem tilkynnt verða síðar!
Blásið verður til hátíðartónleika föstudaginn 25. ágúst.
Húsið opnar klukkan 19:30 og tónlistin hefst stundvíslega klukkan 20:00.
Aðgangur er 2.500 kr. (2.000 kr. fyrir nemendur, eldri borgara og öryrkja). Vinsamlegast hafðu samband við IIL við ef þig vantar fjárhagsaðstoð til að mæta á tónleikana.