InSpace with the Otherness
Step into the installation, grab the magic wand, and experience how your movement changes the music around you. InSpace with the Otherness is a co-located collaboration with a deep learning algorithm. It provides embodied and spatial opportunities to exhibition visitors for musical exploration.
2019 / DMI-P-I project
Connecting the Dots: an AI exhibition | Aalto University
InSpace with the Otherness explores what’s possible when the visitor follows the music as a subordinate companion that clarifies and densifies the atmosphere around it with very abstract sound creation at the ever-shifting border between new sounds and a constantly reinvented composition with the “otherness”, artificial intelligence.
Sharing a performance space brings awareness of others and their presence, which is reinforced by being able to control composition’s sounds through the visitor’s spatial interaction. Space and interaction with AI as the other are therefore deeply interconnected in the performance of this composition.
InSpace with Otherness is an interactive music installation based on the NSynth neural audio synthesis algorithm. A generative background composition plays from the six speakers surrounding the installation space. A visitor can perform along with the composition by waving a magic staff around the space, triggering sounds generated by the NSynth depending on the position of the staff..
