EXCERPT FROM THE SHOWCASING EVENT AT MENGI
Media in support of the article Of altered instrumental relations: a practice-led inquiry into agency through musical performance with neural audio synthesis and violin (Stefánsdóttir and Magnússon, 2025).
Description
Musicians: Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir and Victor Riley Shepardson.
Data curation: Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir.
Model training: Nicola Privato and Victor Riley Shepardson.
Interfaces: Davíð Brynjar Franzson (with model seven), Victor Riley Shepardson (with model one-six).
Model one: data by Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir.
Model two: data by Victor Riley Shepardson.
Model three: data by Franziska Schroeder.
Model four: data retrieved from the Ísmús archive, courtesy of The Árni Magnússon Institute.
Model five: data by Nicola Privato, Victor Riley Shepardson and Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir.
Model six: data by Miguel Angel Crozzoli, Nguyễn Thanh Thủy, Nicola Privato, Stefan Östersjö, Victor Riley Shepardson and Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir.
Model seven: data by Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir.
Composition played with the performance involving model three: “Echo” by Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir. Voices: Guðlaug Friðgeirsdóttir, Bergljót Anna Haraldsdóttir, Kristín Þóra Haraldsdóttir, Tinna Longhetti, Árný Inga Pálsdóttir, Katrín Sigurðardóttir, Þorgerður E. Sigurðardóttir, Sólveig Ýr Sigurgeirsdóttir.
Playback with model four: recordings of narration and singing with Halla Lovísa Loftsdóttir, from the Ísmús archive, courtesy of The Árni Magnússon Institute.
Recorded live in front of an audience on October 25, 2024, at Mengi, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Sound recording: Victor Riley Shepardson
Video recording: Kamilla Henriau
Sound editing and mixing: Victor Riley Shepardson and Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir
Video editing: Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir
Funding
This research is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) as part of the Intelligent Instruments project (INTENT), under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement no. 101001848).