A-Mint

Interactive performance integrating acoustic piano, audio processing, and generative visuals, the result of a collaboration between Danilo Rea, Alex Braga, and Roma Tre University — 2018

Interactive video performance created in collaboration with Danilo Rea, Alex Braga an Roma Tre University. The show combines piano improvisation with artificialintelligence, electronic music and interactive video projections. In the most dire ofpossible futures, will new forms of artificial intelligence really replace humans?A-Mint fits into the dialogue between machine and man: this virtual presence isentrusted with the task of learning Danilo Rea’s piano improvisation methods, sendingthe notes in the form of impulses to Braga who provides the digital orchestration, whil Paolo Scoppola projects images behind the musicians describing the dialogue betweenthe human and artificial minds.

Credits

Piano: Danilo Rea
Sound design: Alex Brag
Interactive Visuals: Paolo Scoppola
AI System Development: Università Roma Tre

Performances

Coder le monde, Pompidou Centre, Paris 2018
Wired Festival, Planetarium, Milan 2018
Innovation Days, Palazzo Della Cultura, Catania 2018
Machine Learning and Arts Experiments, Google Arts And Culture, Paris 2018
Connect4Climate, Aula Absidale, Bologna 2018
Roma Europa Festival, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome 2017

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