Sun 26 February 16:30 The House, Plymouth University Free admission, booking advised
Marcelo Gimenes
Silicon Voices for contralto, bass voices and live electronics draws from the composer’s research into music and Artificial Intelligence. It showcases software that simulates a group of agents communicating with each other by means of musical phrases. As these virtual musicians communicate with each other they progressively evolve a repertoire of generative musical rules collectively.
Part of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival.
Sun 26 February 15:30 The House, Plymouth University Free admission, booking advised
Alexis Kirke
With the help of science, this performance provides a new insight into the relationship of Paul McCartney and John Lennon in the 60th anniversary year of their meeting. Computer algorithms are used to analyse the emotions of their lyrics and turn the results into a classical vocal duet. Each singer will express the emotion of one of the iconic songwriters.
Part of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival.
Sun 26 February 14:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University Free admission, booking advised
Pierre-Emmanuel Largeron
Voices Without Borders gives a voice to an audience in a live musical performance based on a mobile application created at ICCMR by Marcelo Gimenes. This cloud-based system answers a specific compositional need, where an improvisation is led by participants' choices through pre-selected soundtracks. The audience activates soundtracks by voting that will in turn influence a live improvisation on stage. Part of the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music...
Sun 26 February 12:30 Crosspoint, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University Free admission
Nuria Bonet in collaboration with the Marine Institute and the Plymouth Coastal Observatory, Plymouth University
The Voice of the Sea uses information gathered by a marine buoy off the coast of South East Cornwall in real-time to determine compositional choices. Factors such as wave height, period, direction, water temperature will directly influence musical parameters. Surrounded by speakers, the listeners will be immersed in an extended and real-time marine sonic world.
Sun 26 February 11:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University Free admission, booking advised
Alexis Kirke
A story of religion and song is constructed live for the cinema audience, about an avowed Buddhist and professional soprano, Lois. This short narrative film is an emotional Artificial Intelligence that re-cuts itself based on how it is ‘feeling’. It is partly driven by a quantum computer installed at the University of Southern California. Supported by the Creative Cultivator at Plymouth University who nurture and deliver engagement and knowledge transfer between...
Sat 25 February 20:00 The House, Plymouth University £10/£7/Friends Free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
Simon Ible, conductor. Butterscotch, beatbox vocalist
Wasgiischwashäsch: Nuria Bonet Butterscotch Concerto: Eduardo R. Miranda in collaboration with Butterscotch Real Voices Dining: Linas Baltas Vōv: Eduardo R. Miranda and David Peterson in collaboration with Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition Native Alien: Butterscotch
Join us for the world premiere of this alt-classical piece for...
David J. Peterson, creator of the Dothraki language for Game of Thrones
Fri 24 February 20:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University Free admission, booking advised
One of the world’s most famous language creators, David J. Peterson created the Dothraki languag, for HBO’s fantasy series Game of Thrones and a language for the Walt Disney film Thor: The Dark World. This talk will introduce what is involved in the creation of an authentic, naturalistic language such as Dothraki and the language created for Eduardo Reck Miranda’s vocal composition Vōv. Part of the Peninsula...
Festival Directors: Simon Ible, Director of Music, Peninsula Arts Eduardo Reck Miranda, Professor in Computer Music, Plymouth University.
VOICE 2.0 offers a glimpse of how musicians, scientists and linguists are re-inventing voice through an ambitious programme exploring new means, forms and uses of voice in communication and musical creativity.
Organised in partnership with Plymouth University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music (ICCMR).
