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https://roulette.org/event/international-contemporary-ensemble-and-prism/
The six world premieres on this concert are the fruit of a collaboration between the International Contemporary Ensemble and the Center for Practice and Research in Science and Music (PRiSM) at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK. PRiSM founder-director and composer Emily Howard curates a program of new works for ensemble by UK-based composers Sam Salem, Robert Laidlow, Zakiya Leeming, Bofan Ma, Megan Steinberg, and Howard herself. The works utilize PRiSM’s wide range of experimental tools for generating music via artificial intelligence techniques, as well as new machine listening software for real-time gesture recognition and classification, developed by PRiSM researchers Hongshuo Fan and David De Roure, University of Oxford computer scientist, mathematician, musician, and PRiSM’s Technical Director.
PRISM
Founded in 2017, PRiSM has become one of the leading world centers for research in artificial intelligence and music. The Center brings together researchers across the creative arts and the sciences with a view to making a real contribution to society by developing new digital technology and creative practice that address fundamental questions about what it means to be human and creative today. Uniquely positioned within a music conservatoire environment, PRiSM creates world premieres, from small chamber works and sound installations to large-scale orchestral works, created using such AI tools as the widely used PRiSM SampleRNN, an open-source software for neural audio synthesis, as well as techniques for automatic musical gesture recognition and score and text generation. PRiSM’s annual Future Music Festival has featured by the BBC, The Guardian, The New York Times and more.
The list of PRiSM collaborators includes New Scientist, Manchester Science Festival, BBC Philharmonic, Barbican Centre, The University of Oxford, nonclassical, NMC Recordings, Riot Ensemble, Distractfold, BCMG, Contemporary Music for All (CoMA) Manchester, The National Archives, ANU Productions and The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Warburg Institute, The Santa Fe Institute’s Music as Complex Adaptive Systems Working Group, The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute and NOVARS Research Centre, and AHRC Research Network. Other important initiatives include the Oxford Vaccine Group, and the Lucy Hale Festival, focused on Disability and AI.
The founding directors of PRiSM are composer Emily Howard (Professor of Composition, RNCM) and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy (Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford). They are joined by computer scientist David De Roure (Professor of e-Research, University of Oxford and Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute) and composer Sam Salem (PRiSM Senior Lecturer in Composition).
INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
The International Contemporary Ensemble is a multidisciplinary collective of musicians, digital media artists, producers, and educators committed to building and innovating collaborative environments, inspiring audiences to reimagine how contemporary music and sound can be experienced. Acclaimed as “America’s foremost new-music group” (The New Yorker), ICE honors the diversity of human experience and expression by commissioning, developing, recording, and performing the works of living artists. Co-founded in 2001 by flutist and MacArthur “genius” Fellow Claire Chase, the Ensemble has premiered over 1,000 works and has given performances at Warsaw Autumn, Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, Cité de la Musique (Paris), Park Avenue Armory, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ojai Music Festival, Big Ears Festival Dutch National Opera, Carnegie Hall, and Walt Disney Concert Hall Stage. Among the Ensemble’s composer-collaborators are Du Yun, who won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for the opera Angel’s Bone, which the Ensemble developed and premiered, and MacArthur Fellows Tyshawn Sorey and Courtney Bryan.
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This performance is presented live in Roulette's theater in Downtown Brooklyn. Roulette’s mission is to support artists creating new and adventurous art in all disciplines by providing them with a venue and resources to realize their creative visions and to build an audience interested in the evolution of experimental art. |