Conversation in the Cloud
Conversation in the Cloud is a live multimedia composition for one human musician and one AI musician. Two musicians’ conversations start at the intersection of reality and virtuality via music. Then, both musicians will push their limits through improvisation based on each other’s music during the live performance. Finally, the two worlds gradually blend as the conversation deepens. The AI musician is a comprehensive system that applies multiple machine learning techniques to enhance its machine musicianship, such as deep neural networks and human body pose estimation. Thus, with the combination of the live multimedia and two musicians’ performances to unveil a multi-dimensional music conversation.
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Hongshuo FanHongshuo Fan 范弘硕 (b.1990) is a Chinese cross-disciplinary composer, new media artist and creative programmer. His work has involved various real-time interactive multimedia contents, such as acoustic instruments, live electronics, generative visuals, light and body movements. His research and creative interest focus on the fusion of traditional culture and cutting-edge technology in the form of contemporary art. His output spans chamber music, live interactive electronics, installations, and audio-visual works.
EASTN-DC, European Art-Science-Technology Network for Digital Creativity, is a network dedicated to the time-based digital arts: musical arts, visual arts, performing and interactive arts. It is gathering 16 partners in 13 different countries from Europe to the Americas. They will host and exchange about 70 creators in the frame of a 16 international events tour spread over 4 years. These privileged moments, in direct contact with the audience, will frame a new and systemic approach, binding the Knowing “Disseminate”, the Learning “Inseminate”, the Making “Collect”, a digital creativity factory leading to a creative citizen.