Now with slots for the power supplies: packing the Sophtar for a trip to Paris, I will be at @ircam.bsky.social until the 26th, come say hi if you’re around. #sophtar #flightcase #ircam #newinstruments

About two inspiring weeks at CASCB in Konstanz — fireflies, bats, bees, meerkats, and swarm intelligence. All feeding into new algorithms for musical co-improvisation. Next artistic residency: IRCAM, Paris. #Musikfonds #AI #Music #bioinspired @uni-konstanz.de

I've assembled a list of ways to give to community-led relief efforts in Lebanon, including those serving migrant workers. Particular paying attention to making international donations easy. This comes thanks to input from folks I know on the ground.

**Co-improvising with the non-human** very happy to share that I am among the 15 artists selected by Musikfonds for their amazing AI Scholarship Programme. I will explore how non-human group intelligence can inform the design of algorithmic agents for musical co-improvisation. More about it here:

The excellence of the SoundStudies programme at @udkberlin.bsky.social Universität der Künste Berlin cannot be overstated. Please read the open letter and consider signing it: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In November I performed and presented the Sophtar at Most Wanted: Music Berlin. I was particularly surprised by how much people enjoyed playing the Sophtar for the first time. Some people sat at my booth playing the instrument for nearly an hour! Here are some pictures taken by Lisa Vlasenko

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Just arrived at @ircam_paris for #improtech . Setting up the Sophtar in studio 5, this afternoon at 16:30 I will presents the instrument and its distinctive techniques, and improvise with different algorithms and models. #sophtar #musicresearch #newinstruments

How to imagine computation without the malicious tech of our imperial way of life? I talked about this at a hybrid keynote for ALPACA2025 on „Endosymbiotic Computation“. I am definitely out of practice to talk freely in EN ;-) youtu.be/eRhgtwtkYv8?... thanks @slab.org @federicovisi.bsky.social

Morning keynote at #AlpacaConference with Shintaro Miyazaki aka @kontratanz@tldr.nettime.org aka @algorhythm.bsky.social Join the live stream here: streamyard.com/watch/Ft69pp... . @slab.org #algorithmic #pattern #mediaart #algorhythmics #endosymbiotic

#Algorithmic #Pattern Alpaca Conference live now from #Berlin , #Sheffield , #Barcelona , #Linz , and online. Now @slab.org chairing, join us here: streamyard.com/watch/Yg6zPG...

Alexandre Saunier and I are presenting a paper co-authored with Maurice Jones about the behaviour generator based on large language models (LLMs) that transforms textual prompts into expressive sound modulations and motions in space.

Refactor your code and find chunks of garbage that were sitting there quitely doing "unexplainable" things

Training a neural network on a Raspberry Pi 5 to map signals from e-textiles sensors to sound synthesis parameters. #sensors #sound #machinelearning #raspberrypi #etextiles #puredata #flucoma youtu.be/Dg175o85cfI

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AI is an attack on knowledge workers. Anti-intellectualism like this will be a crucial tool for those who want to undermine any potential for a response to that attack that takes the form of broad working class solidarity. Figuring out how to proactively fight back will be essential 1/3

🗣️ We still have a couple of spots left for our conference "Data, Power, Control – Science between Resilience and Restriction", taking place next Thursday. Info and registration: tinyurl.com/yd8rd6fj #digitalfuture

Happy solstice 🌅

Next week is NIME week! Not going this year – Canberra is way too far from Berlin – but I finally uploaded my presentation from last year. Features the Sophtar and a somewhat pretentious digression about magic, ergodynamics, and a quote from a book by Benjamin Labatut #NIME #NewInstruments #Sophtar

Photos and a short video from the TCP/IP quartet concert at Studio Acusticum. I played the #Sophtar and tested a few new interactions with the Acusticum #Hyperorgan.

Nice to see this photo from our quantum computer music performance on the cover of the “Advances in Quantum Computer Music” book edited by Eduardo Miranda. The concert took place at Radialsystem in Berlin during CTM 2024 #quantum #etextiles #CTM

All the videos from the Embedding Algorithms Workshop are now available also on udk/stream, the @joinpeertube.org instance hosted by @udkberlin.bsky.social #fediverse #embeddingalgorithms #videos stream.udk-berlin.de/w/p/hR4L9o3B...

Video playlist with all the 14 videos from the Embedding Algorithms Workshop. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLO0tUhzBqFWU0YQXUrNgPyDoqwaKZxwq

Final three videos from the 2024 #EmbeddingAlgorithms workshop. 3: the closing performance by @adampultz.bsky.social on Feedback Actuated Acoustic Bass (FAAB) and @tpelinski.bsky.social on modular synth and machine learning models youtu.be/ZzpQMrLqcG0 #supercollider #bela #belaplatform #modularsynth

Final three videos from the 2024 #EmbeddingAlgorithms workshop. 2: an #AbsoluteRelativity collective performance involving members of the audience youtu.be/gfVMBslEyw0

Final three videos from the 2024 #EmbeddingAlgorithms workshop. 1: a performance by @zoonslows on Slow Qin and @alberto.decampo on Non-Trivial Musical Instrument (NTMI) youtu.be/eTml59lx_UY #NIME #SuperCollider #NewInstruments #MaxMSP #ExperimentalMusic #SlowQin #EchoHo #AlbertoDeCampo

Now, it's time to up the ante. We are committed to enshrining scientific freedom in EU law, creating a 7-year ‘super grant’ to attract top researchers, and expanding support for the most promising scientists. More → europa.eu/!TTbWbJ

⏰ Last Chance - Call for Talks: Data, Power, Control – Digital Science Between Resilience and Restriction! Submission of abstracts (max. 500 words) is still possible until May 15, 2025, via email to: [email protected] 📍ECDF 👉 More infos: tinyurl.com/CallGDNeng ©ECDF/PR #digitalfuture

list of Ukrainian #eurorack module makers sonomu.club/@oleksiy/112...

The Embedding Algorithms Workshop took place in July 2024 at @udkberlin.bsky.social We brought together artists, researchers, and practitioners and had a great time discussing the practice of embedding algorithms in the arts with presentations and performances. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

and #NicolaHein slaying with an assemblage of Buchlas and custom software youtu.be/fO5ViAN8Aj8 #embeddingalgorithms #buchla #nime #musicresearch #newinstruments #esperimentalmusic

Then onto the performances with #EliadWagner profoundly hacking an old reverb unit youtu.be/6HVU5nqZXgE #embeddingalgorithms #modularsynth #musicresearch

More videos from the Embedding Algorithms Workshop! Three this time: @federicovisi.bsky.social (me!) with an early presentation of the #Sophtar (so much has happened since then, particularly after working at the #intelligentinstruments Lab) youtu.be/N8uK5HPQ5lM

@arjensenius.bsky.social on peer review, its exploitation by publishers, and alternative models such as ORE #research #academia #openscience www.arj.no/2024/10/19/p...

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Long weekend ahead, so what's better than watching two more talks from the Embedding Algorithms Workshop? This time with @nicolahein.bsky.social talking about “Cybernetic listening and embodiment in human-machine improvisation” youtu.be/aPSAsXwVHbc

More videos from the #EmbeddingAlgorithms workshop: @tpelinski.bsky.social & @adampultz.bsky.social with “Building and performing with an ensemble of models” youtu.be/jfnpDtOpDJM #modularsynth #machinelearning #feedback #doublebass #musicresearch #algorithms #newinstruments

New videos from the Embedded Algorithms Workshop added to the YouTube playlist. The event took place last summer at UdK Berlin. We brought together a community of artists, researchers, and practitioners and had a great time discussing the practice of embedding algorithms in the arts. #musicresearch

Videos from the Embedded Algorithms Workshop at Berlin Open Lab: we start with the presentations by @violayip.bsky.social and @apmcpherson.bsky.social of Augmented Instruments Lab and Bela. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Video of the Sophtar performance at the 2025 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, Georgia Tech, 8 March 2025. Jeff Albert: trombone; Sukandar Kartadinata & Federico Visi: Sophtar

At @udkberlin.bsky.social we are recruiting two part-time post-docs for an exciting new project on touch technologies, textile wearables and music performance in collaboration with @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social More info below 👇

Interesting interview with Halldór Úlfarsson where he discusses the halldorophone and namechecks fellow feedback instrument makers and musicians including Hildur Gudnadóttir, @adampultz.bsky.social @thormagnusson.bsky.social @victorriley.bsky.social Chris Kiefer blog.bela.io/halldor-25-i...

Very sad to hear about Jonathan Sterne’s passing :(

Guthman Musical Instrument Competition concert with all the finalists performing with local musicians. I will be on stage with the #Sophtar played four hands with Sukandar Kartadinata and Jeff Albert on trombone. There will be sounds you probably never heard before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TRd...

The Sophtar has been selected as one the ten finalists in this year’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. Together with Sukandar Kartadinata, we will bring the instrument to the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta (US) to present it to the competition’s judges and participate in a public performance.

Amazing photos from recent Berlin prem. of my text score "Four Elements" created as part of "Sound Vessels" where we control neural synthesis models by pouring liquids. My co-conspirator @federicovisi.bsky.social performing on vessels, Cosima Gerhardt cello and Alberto de Campo electronics

So I started using an LLM (Claude) integrated in a terminal app for doing command line stuff. I had to compile a binary using cmake (which is notoriously fiddly, particularly if you don't use it frequently). The first build attempt failed, Claude read the output and suggested some changes...

Next up: I will take part in the Wilding AI Lab, part of CTM 2025. We will learn about the application of generative AI in spatial audio, and collectively explore the wilder territories of AI. I will experiment with the Sophtar inside the amazing MONOM.

Trying to keep my publications page updated using the #zotpress plugin for @wordpress.org . It pulls bibliographic data from @zotero.org collections, so the bibliography on my page is automatically updated as soon as I add new items. #academicchatter www.federicovisi.com/publications/

Finally got the physical copy of the Computer Music Journal issue on Human-AI Cocreativity that includes our open-access article "An End-to-End Musical Instrument System That Translates Electromyogram Biosignals to Synthesized Sound"