Composer & Creative Director
It's the Algorithm
A composition project exploring machine listening and the social impacts of emerging AI technologies.
Who will think of the children?
It's the Algorithm for voice, small ensemble & machine listening technology explores anxieties surrounding the use of AI by younger generations. Written for the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and premiered at the Roulette Intermedium, the piece delivers a surrealist narrative with sounds of telephones ringing, live machine listening responses triggered by musical gestures, and increasing parental anxiety.
We don’t understand their sibling tongue:
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Encoded bacteria, reprogrammed genes
and vintage memes
New machine listening tool PRiSM Music Audio Gesture Recogniser (AGR) was developed in collaboration with George Lewis (composer and artistic director of ICE), and composer-researchers at RNCM PRiSM.
The software uses Real Time analysis to listen to the ensemble and can be used to trigger events as a result of specific musical gestures. The tool was developed to explore new ways to incorporate machine listening into creative practice, and the premiere marked the first time AGR was used in a public concert. More about the event.
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Performers in It's the Algorithm play musical gestures given in the score which are identified by the tool and trigger pre-recorded samples of themselves musing over the real problem with the children today.
Machine listening Tool
Work details
Trumpet in Bb, Electric Guitar, 2 Percussion, Soprano [voice], Double Bass. 8min approx.
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Commissioned by International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) & RNCM PRiSM
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Premiered by International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), conducted by Vimabyi Kaziboni.
Jonathan Finlayson (trumpet)
Nathan Davis & Levy Lorenzo (percussion)
Dan Lippel (guitar)
Alice Teyssier (soprano)
Greg Chudzik (double bass)​​​
