Data Mining / Live Scoring | Alexandros Drymonitis – ARTéfacts ensemble

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.