Future Music #2 (15 June 20)
Featuring new PRiSM commissioned work from Jennifer Walshe & Marcus du Sautoy
RNCM Future Music ran for the first time in 2019, examining developments in new music and technology – Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Live Coding and more besides – asking what possibilities lie ahead for the music creators of the future.
Since then, the RNCM Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music (PRiSM) has been awarded £914,000 funding by Research England, enabling us to further our creative and collaborative work into this exciting, and fast-moving area.
In PRiSM Future Music #2, we focus in on AI. We might all be working remotely from disparate geographic locations but this has made us examine how we can use technology to work creatively together in new ways.
Interact
The composers and authors for each session are available to answer questions on Twitter @RNCMPRiSM, using the hashtag #PRiSMFutureMusic. The @ for each of the artists taking part are included in the schedule below.
Schedule
Monday 15 June 2020
10:00 A Psychogeography of Latent Space
Future Music #2 marks the release of the PRiSM SampleRNN project, an exciting first step in our exploration of the use of Machine Learning for audio synthesis, with a new article by PRiSM Lecturer and composer Sam Salem. Sam will be on Twitter throughout the day to answer questions about his piece, and the release of PRiSM Sample RNN @_SamSalem.
13:00 Generating the Future – Exploring Music and Poetry Created with Artificial Intelligence
This two-part exploration into the creative uses of artificial intelligence focusses on generation: generation of music, generation of text. Join PRiSM’s Doctoral Researcher Robert Laidlow for a presentation featuring quartet performances from members of the BBC Philharmonic and RNCM soloist Vanessa Guinadi. Live Twitter Q&A will run alongside this event with Robert Laidlow @Robert_Laidlow and Vanessa Guinadi @sopranovanessa.
17:00-18:00 Composing in the Age of Zoom
PRiSM Lecturer Sam Salem introduces three new works by RNCM Composition students Ellen Sargen, Fraz Ireland and Bofan Ma, mentored by Jennifer Walshe. Live Twitter Q&A will run alongside this event with Sam @_SamSalem and the composers @ellensargen @InfallibleFraz @bofantheone.
19:00 AI Creativity and The Challenge of Time
The mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, PRiSM Co-Director and Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, explores AI machine learning as a collaborative partner in the creative arts. He will read a new piece written especially for PRiSM Future Music #2. A live Twitter Q&A with @MarcusduSautoy will ran alongside this event.
20:00 People & Things by Jennifer Walshe | PRiSM Commission World Premiere
A text which navigates the blurry boundaries between humans and the objects they deem sentient. Release of the text accompanied by a streamed reading of the piece. Live Twitter Q&A will run alongside this event with @JenniferWalshe.
*Read the full illustrated piece and listen again here*
Tuesday 16 June 2020
13.00 RNCM Radio Edition featuring PRiSM Future Music #2
Conversations with, and music by, RNCM PRiSM staff, students, guests and friends, all connected by PRiSM ideas, collaborations and projects.
