intermedial

11.05.2024

Tunnelblick

by Zaneta Rydzewska

Striving for progress The term tunnel vision sums up the essence of the piece – a commentary on humanity’s relentless pursuit of progress, often with an unwavering focus on a single goal. The music serves as a sonic exploration of the interplay between human emotions and the advancing field of artificial intelligence. Turing Test The […]

11.05.2024

Intermedial AI-Synthesizer

A project by eID in collaboration with Birds on Mars and Quandel Staudt Design.

Artificial intelligence as a link In recent years, the realization of traditional concert formats has not been easy. For eID, the circumstances became an opportunity and our ongoing search for new concert and performance formats became the focus of a broad public. We were looking for a discursive link between cross-platform online concerts. New forms […]

10.05.2024

Transparence

Music theater for ensemble, live electronics and video installation by Pablo Garretón

Transparency in a digital society Transparence is a piece about transparency in our digital society, a society where—with a view to readily available information—trust as a social practice becomes obsolete and gives way to control. Thus, the transparency society has a structural proximity to the surveillance society. Causal correlations and big data Understanding human needs […]

10.11.2022

Digital image-music connections in the work of Jens Brand, Orm Finnendahl and Michael Beil

Rainer Nonnenmann

Many composers of the current middle generation aged forty to fifty work with computers and video as a matter of course. Following the technological-demographic regularity, there are even more in the generation of the under forties or under thirties. Michael Beil, born in 1963 and head of the Studio for Electronic Music at the Cologne […]