Music

Data Mining / Live Scoring | Alexandros Drymonitis – ARTéfacts ensemble

Borderline Festival 2019 | Day 1 & 2

Dates

03-04 —04-04-2019

Prices

5 — 10 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

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Time & Date

Day

Time

Venue

Day

Wednesday-Thursday

Time

21:00

Venue

Exhibition Hall -1

Information

Duration

60 minutes

Tickets

Onassis Stegi Friends presale: from 4 MAR 2019, 12:00
General presale: from 11 MAR 2019, 12:00

Full price: 7, 10 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people: 8 €
Groups 10+ people, Νeighbourhood residents: 7 €
People with disabilities, Companions & Unemployed: 5 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org

A multimedia performance which brings together new technologies and acoustic music, the random and the topical, sound and light. The ARTéfacts ensemble takes on a new challenge: performing a score generated in real time by an algorithm which draws dynamically on data from the internet.

The raw material of the performance is a selected topical issue; its content, the comments, reactions and social media posts it provokes. An algorithm draws on data and analyzes internet users’ activity in real time to create scores for each of the six musicians in the ARTéfacts contemporary music ensemble.

The algorithm also ‘directs’ the lighting, giving the audience a holistic experience which combines sound and vision.

Viewers can wander among the musicians, and the process by which on-line data is transformed into scores is illustrated on screens. If they want to, viewers can also leave their own trace on the algorithm's feed, and hence on the performance.

For the music, the composer Nicoleta Chatzopoulou collaborated closely with the programmer Alexandros Drymonitis, who created the algorithm, creating a work consisting of distinct parts (melodies, rhythms, harmonies, motifs etc.) which the algorithm draws on to create the score.

The lighting designer Melina Mascha also worked in a way that allows the algorithm to combine and compose the lighting live.

The algorithm's code will be uploaded onto the open digital platform GitHub to allow other programmers to add to the project by writing code for other musical instruments, or even by developing the main algorithm further.