the long now
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Marco Döttlinger, Patrik Lechner
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'The Long Now - flowing with the algorithmic other' delimits the perceptual space and explores the materialities used (code, sound, image) in their temporal dimensions in order to understand an experience of time as an introspective, mental and, at the same time, physical experience: an intra-active flowing with the algorithmic other.
While performing, our two custom live-coding systems communicate with each other. This means that the audio level is informed by the visual level and vice versa; they are, so to speak, entangled or form entangled agencies: the two sides do not exist before their intra-actions.
In the context of performing with algorithmic agents or other non-human technological entities, we can observe a mutual and reciprocal adaptation that takes place in a constantly evolving feedback loop. This loop leads to the emergence of properties that could neither be designed nor invented from an external perspective of control or analysis. Our project aims to make this emergence potential artistically tangible.
points of no return
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Marco Döttlinger
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'points of no return' is a composition for 7 performers with mini-synthesizers and live visuals
This work was created for the 10th anniversary of the NAMES Ensemble, commisioned and premiered at Klangspuren Festival 2024 in Schwaz, Tirol Austria.
The title “points of no return” attempts to describe several perspectives: on the one hand, it references the generative nature of all components involved, be it the live visualization in the form of a particle system or the play with seven mini-synthesizers, which resist an exact, repeatable reproduction of a musical text by design.
The score is the result of a practice based research and experimentation process as a subproject of Spirits in Complexity - Making kin with Experimental Music Systems (funded by the Austrian Sience Fund FWF AR-821).
time slice transmitter
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Marco Döttlinger
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time slice transmitter is composed as an intra-active adaptive assemblage and investigates creative agency in the context of electroacoustic and algorithmic real-time composition and performance. Marco Döttlinger and Anna Lindenbaum (violin) explore process-based forms or relationships between human and algorithmic actors. This structure consists of three interlocking recurrent levels: a violinist, an autonomously acting computer music system (CMS) and a laptop performer.
Our hypotheses are that musical intra-action with algorithms generates a new ontology of musical artworks: away from a text to be interpreted, towards a non-linear and radically open-ended workflow. This also calls into question the traditional concept of authorship, as the temporal interdependence represents new constellations of cooperation. In general, machine learning algorithms are pushing for a critical and creative examination of traditional concepts of music creation.
Rediscovering the Interpersonal: Models of Networked Communication in New Media Performance
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Alicia Champlin
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This paper examines the themes of human perception and participation within the contemporary paradigm and relates the hallmarks of the major paradigm shift which occurred in the mid-20th century from a structural view of the world to a systems view. In this context, the author’s creative practice is described, outlining a methodology for working with the communication networks and interpersonal feedback loops that help to define our relationships to each other and to media since that paradigm shift. This research is framed within a larger field of inquiry into the impact of contemporary New Media Art as we experience it.
This thesis proposes generative/cybernetic/systems art as the most appropriate media to model the processes of cultural identity production and networked communication. It reviews brief definitions of the systems paradigm and some key principles of cybernetic theory, with emphasis on generative, indeterminate processes. These definitions provide context for a brief review of precedents for the use of these models in the arts, (especially in process art, experimental video, interactive art, algorithmic composition, and sound art) since the mid-20th century, in direct correlation to the paradigm shift into systems thinking.
Research outcomes reported here describe a recent body of generative art performances that have evolved from this intermedial, research-based creative practice, and discuss its use of algorithms, electronic media, and performance to provide audiences with access to an intuitive model of the interpersonal in a networked world.
'points of no return' is a composition for 7 performers with mini-synthesizers and live visuals This work was created for the 10th anniversary of the NAMES Ensemble, commisioned and premiered at Klangspuren Festival 2024 in Schwaz, Tirol Austria. The title “points of no return” attempts to describe several perspectives: on the one hand, it references the generative nature of all components involved, be it the live visualization in the form of a particle system or the play with seven mini-synthesizers, which resist an exact, repeatable reproduction of a musical text by design. The score is the result of a practice based research and experimentation process as a subproject of Spirits in Complexity - Making kin with Experimental Music Systems (funded by the Austrian Sience Fund FWF AR-821).open exposition comments (0)