REACHing OUT !
As part of the Propagations Festival and the JIM 2024
The REACHing OUT! concerts celebrate the most jubilant improvisation around the world, featuring the great double bassist Joëlle Léandre, accompanied by her compatriots the Who/Men, musician-researchers with their machines doped with generative AI algorithms, and guest musicians for each new edition. The REACH research and creation program behind this new form of performance formulates the hypothesis of co-creativity between the players in these improvised interactions incorporating machines, as a kind of mixed reality: building an ever-renewed musical form, emerging from co-constructed sound material that is both unpredictable and controlled, from the rustle of a wing to a volcanic explosion.
What if human and machine were to dream of each other, hybridizing human creative energy with cross-listening and cross-learning processes and their feedback loops, in pure pleasure?
György Kurtág Jr. synthesizers and electronics
Jean-Marc Montera guitars, analog electronics
Turner Williams Jr. shahi baaja, analog electronics
Joëlle Léandre double bass/vocals
The Who/Men composed of
Gérard Assayag, Mikhail Malt, Marco Fiorini Somax2 generative electronics