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Gaëtan Robillard 1/4 : Data-portrait of climate scepticism
Data, sets of data: it's practically all we talk about these days. They are the prism through which we view reality, they inform and motivate decisions. We mine them like coal, we extract them, we exploit them, we feed them …
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IRCAM Tutorials: Dicy2
Dicy2 is both a package for Max and a plugin for Ableton Live implementing interactive agents using machine-learning to generate musical sequences that can be integrated into musical situations ranging from the production of structured material within a compositional process …
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Critical Climate Machine 3/4 : Composing with Dyci2
Controlled by Gaëtan Robillard and Dionysios Papanikolaou, the generation engine OM-Dicy2—developed by Jérôme Nika, a member of the Musical Representations team—was fed with 34 dialogues, made up of climatosceptic arguments and their refutations to produce hours and hours of sounds. …
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Artificial, Creative, and Autonomous Agents
For Georges Bloch’s concert Three Ladies Project on September 5th, the historical performance of the great singer Diane Reeves in Montreux is reconstructed in real-time by the software based on the harmony of the piano played live by Hervé Sellin!
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Trailer - Images of Work #29: "Ex Machina" by Steve Lehman and Frédéric Maurin
The American saxophonist Steve Lehman and the artistic director of the Orchestre National de Jazz, Frédéric Maurin, present Ex Machina, a unique creation composed wit the assistance of the Dicy2 environment—used in the performance of the work as well—developed by …
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A brief and subjective history of AI technics in music composition
Numerical Approaches, GOFAI, Machine learning ; what is the role of artificial intelligence in music composition since 1950 ? An article by Jean-Louis Giavitto
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Ars Electronica 2020
IRCAM AIxMusic garden: multidisciplinary views of both the scientific and creative research carried out on AI.
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Replay: Forum Vertigo 2019 “Designing the Living”
The third edition of the Forum Vertigo, held March 27—30, 2019 at the Centre Pompidou, is dedicated to artistic and societal issues surrounding biotechnologies. The entire event is available on replay.
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Replay: Forum Vertigo 2020 “Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Creation”
Tune in to our YouTube channel to relive the panel discussions and debate!