An evening of performances exploring the connection between complexity, aesthetics, data, and music. Music at the interface between art and science in the context of the ZiF workshop “Complexity, Aesthetics, and Data Sonification”.
The event will showcase five multimedia music performances, ranging from brain-controlled computer music to electrocardiogram-driven piano compositions and generative conceptual computer music, in an evening full of creativity and exploration.
Performers:
Olivia Jack: Live coding music performance
Bio: Olivia Jack is a programmer and artist who works frequently with open-source software, live coding, and experimental interfaces. She is the developer of hydra, a platform for live-coding visuals inspired by analog video synthesis. Her live visual sets explore algorithmic representations of unpredictable and chaotic systems, and software writing as a messy and ephemeral process.
https://ojack.xyz
Cristián Huepe: Algorithmic music at the edge of chaos
Bio: Cristián Huepe is an electronic musician and theoretical physicist producing and performing from experimental to club music while conducting research in complex systems, digital humanities, and the interface between art and science. He has released and collaborated on several albums, performing worldwide both as a solo artist and as part of the “Makers of Sense” duo.
https://www.cristianhuepe.com
Elaine Chew: Piano pieces using heartbeat data.
Bio: Elaine Chew is a versatile and interdisciplinary artist-scientist breaking new ground between the musical, mathematical, and cardiovascular sciences. As a concert pianist, Elaine integrates musical performances in her scientific research communications, showing real-time mathematical visualizations of musical structures and physiological measurements while playing.
Tim Perkis: Solo improvised electronic music performance
Bio: Tim Perkis is a researcher, engineer, musician, and filmmaker, who has been working primarily in the field of digital sound for decades. As a musician, he is a founder of The Hub, a pioneering group in the field of computer network music, as well as an internationally known performer of improvised music. He has taught and been a resident at multiple institutions, releasing music on various labels.
https://www.perkis.com
Rodrigo Cádiz: Brain-computer interface and physical controller music performance
Bio: Rodrigo Cádiz is a composer and engineer. His catalogue considers works for solo instruments, chamber music, symphonic and robot orchestras, visual music, computers, and new interfaces for musical expression, in particular brain-computer interfaces and the Arcontinuo. His research spans a broad range of questions on the connections between music, biology, technology, and complexity.
https://rodrigocadiz.com
Contact
Sabine Mende, Group and Conference Support
zif-conferencesupport@uni-bielefeld.de
Please register via the event’s website.