As part of the Karlsruhe Museum Night (KAMUNA) 2019, Artemi-Maria Gioti and Kosmas Giannoutakis will present the project "CECIA" (Collaborative Electroacoustic Composition with Intelligent Agents) and participate in a panel discussion with Yannick Hofmann from the ZKM | Center for Art and Media. 

About the project
This interdisciplinary project called “CECIA” (Collaborative Electroacoustic Composition with Intelligent Agents) is an innovative art project that integrates the creative agency of 5 composers and Machine Learning algorithms in order to produce a coherent composition of electroacoustic music. The project aims to explore collaborative music creation, harnessing the creativity of electroacoustic composers and Intelligent Agents through a cloud computing platform.

The collaborative process of composition will be conducted online in an iterative fashion, in which the composers will submit and evaluate sound material/ideas/suggestions. These data will train the machine learning algorithms, which will generate new sonic structures according to the group preferences. The framework implements a decentralized model for electroacoustic music composition, featuring hybrid agency (human-algorithmic) and distributed authorship.

Programme
20:10
CECIA - COLLABORATIVE ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITION WITH INTELLIGENT AGENTS
Project presentation by Artemi - Maria Gioti & Kosmas Giannoutakis

20:40
CECIA - COLLABORATIVE ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITION WITH INTELLIGENT AGENTS
Panel discussion with Artemi - Maria Gioti, Kosmas Giannoutakis & Yannick Hofmann