1 FELIX NAGL

“x-coding”

x-coding is a concert format that deals with the (de-)coding of musical information, drawing on existing piano and keyboard repertoire to fuse specific sound characteristics through artificial intelligence. The first part is a selection of solo pieces for piano, keyboard and live electronics. The works are based on the (de-)coding of musical information. This is conveyed, for example, in Steven Takasugi’s “Die Klavierübung” in the transfer of MIDI data sets into a piano score. In Simon Steen-Andersen’s “Mono” the continuum of the human voice is perceived through a coarse digital grid, Enno Poppe’s “Arbeit” conserves a vintage instrument by means of digital sampling and Betsy Jolas translates the sound of bells into a semi-graphic score for a keyboard-instrument.

The second part of the program is a synthesizer performance that uses AI-based neural synthesis to isolate and amalgamate characteristic sounds from the repertoire of the first half of the concert. The result will be a sonic sphere that invites to reflect on the identity and causality of sound. The performance will be permeated by texts of the performance-artist Jasmin Schädler, who deals with mechanisms of knowledge and data-collection. She will dive into the history of sound production especially with respect to human-machine dependencies.

Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Die Klavierübung – for piano and tape (10`)
Betsy Jolas: Trois études campanaires – No.2 – for virtual carillon à clavier (5’)
Simon Steen Andersen: Mono & Nachgesang – autotune study for keyboard and voice (10’)
Enno Poppe: Arbeit: (III) – Version for Sampled Virtual Hammond Organ (5’)

– Audio-Interludes –

Performance on NSynth Super (15’)

piano & keyboards: Felix Nagl
videos: Jasmin Schädler
coding: Jonas Hummel

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2 RADIO HITO

piano, claviers, voice and electronics.

Radio Hito aka Y.-My Nguyen was born in 1985 in Ulis (France). She was trained in printmaking, typography and classical piano in France, Switzerland, England and the Netherlands. Her visual and sound productions are supported by the text in its different existences. She has been co-hosting the poetry review La tête et les cornes alongside Benoît Berthelier, Maël Guesdon and Marie de Quatrebarbes. She lives and produces between Brussels, Paris and Strasbourg.

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