Human-Machine Improvisations (Cork, 2010) - real-time, musical interactions between human and technological performers
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Human-Machine Improvisations (Cork, 2010)
real-time, musical interactions between human and technological
performers
io 0.0.1 beta++ with Han-earl Park, Bruce Coates and Franziska
Schroeder
plus iWife with John Godfrey and Francis Heery
event summary
Date: Wednesday, 26 May 2010.
Time: 8:00 pm (doors: 7:45 pm).
Venue: Blackrock Castle Observatory
Castle Road, Blackrock, Co. Cork Ireland.
Performers: io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself)
with Han-earl Park (guitar),
Bruce Coates (saxophone) and Franziska Schroeder
(saxophone)
plus iWife (itself)
with John Godfrey (guitar) and Francis Heery (diffusion).
Tickets: €16 (€10) from www.tickets.ie
Details: http://www.io001b.com/
description
A unique and exciting on-stage meeting between human and machine
improvisers takes place on 26 May 2010 at Blackrock Castle Observatory
(Cork, Ireland). This event will mark the debut of two extraordinary
machine musicians, io 0.0.1 beta++ and iWife constructed by Han-earl
Park and John Godfrey respectively. Featuring Park and Godfrey
(guitars), Bruce Coates and Franziska Schroeder (saxophones), and
Francis Heery (diffusion), the performance will be part critique and
part playful exploration, both a boundary-breaking public
demonstration of socio-musical technologies and an ironic sci-fi
parody.
io 0.0.1 beta++ and iWife are modern-day musical automata. They are
not instruments to be played, but non-human artificial musicians that
perform alongside their human counterparts. They represent contrasting
approaches to the artistic investigation of technology, interaction,
improvisation, and musicality itself. io 0.0.1 beta++ whimsically
evokes a 1950s B-movie robot, seemingly jerry-rigged, constructed from
ad-hoc components including plumbing, kitchenware, speakers and
missile switches. While io 0.0.1 beta++ celebrates the material and
corporeal, iWife, in contrast, is disembodied and delocalized; a
diffuse ghost in acoustic space.
The performances with these artificial musicians will highlight
society’s entanglement with technology, demonstrate alternative modes
of interfacing the musical and the technological, and illuminate the
creative and improvisative processes in music. With the simultaneously
high-tech and Frankensteinian backdrop of Blackrock Castle
Observatory, the event will be a radical and playful engagement with
powerful and problematic dreams (and nightmares) of the artificial; a
dream as old as the anthropology of robots.
With (human) performers representing diverse traditions and practices
of present-day, transnational improvised musics (from avant jazz, free
improvisation, AACM and post-AACM practices, European and Euro-
American experimental musics), expect musical improvisations that
fuse, fragment and recombine musical histories, traditions and
expectations.
The event will begin at 8:00 pm (doors at 7:45 pm). Tickets are €16
(€10 concessions) from www.tickets.ie.
Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring
Award, and support from the Arts Council of Ireland, Blackrock Castle
Observatory, The Castle Bar and Trattoria and the UCC School of Music.
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