Somax2 version 2.5 is released !
Somax2 is an application for co-improvisation and composition. It is implemented in Max and is based on a generative model to provide stylistically coherent improvisation, while in real-tim…
Joëlle Léandre is experimenting with AI human-machine interaction in the framework of the Reach project with Gérard Assayag, Mikhail Malt and Marco Fiorini, using the Somax2 software from this project on CoCreativity and Creative AI.
Watch the Reaching Out ! Joëlle Léandre documentary as well as video recordings of studio sessions and audio album in preparation wit a selection of pieces.
" To have established the double bass as a solo instrument already makes her a pioneer, but her prolific work and her international influence also make her exemplary. With 220 albums recorded to date, numerous honors and constant activity, Joëlle Léandre is one of the greatest contemporary French musicians. More than 40 composers have written for her and her instrument. In parallel, she has developed free improvisation, which she has been playing and transmitting with unabated joy for half a century. [..]"
Anne Yven, for Philarmonie de Paris (read full article)
Joëlle Léandre will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award in New York on June 13, 2023, before a concert at Ircam on June 16, 2023 during the Manifeste festival.
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SOMAX2 infos, installation, démos
Somax2 is an application for co-improvisation and composition. It is implemented in Max and is based on a generative model to provide stylistically coherent improvisation, while in real-tim…
Improtech 2023 aura lieu à Uzeste du 11 au 13 août.
Horse Lords meets the researchers of the REACH project at ircam and experiment improvised interaction with the Somax2 Cocreative AI system.
REACHing OUT gathers information about how the ERC REACH project disseminate through medias, residencies, productions, etc.
" Avoir intronisé la contrebasse en tant qu’instrument soliste fait déjà d’elle une pionnière, mais son œuvre prolifique et son rayonnement internat…