Sampling with AudioStellar: New Frontiers in Music and Machine Learning

Join Machine Agencies and Kamyar Karimi for an Introduction to AudioStellar workshop to discover how this AI-powered experimental sampler transforms your audio samples into an interactive, real-time visual and sonic experience. Learn to load your own dataset and extract the features/turn to samples, navigate the latent space, and integrate machine learning concepts into live performance and sequencing.

To participate, make sure you come with :

• Your own laptop
• A sample pack with at least 20 minutes of sound
• AudioStellar installed from audiostellar.xyz

ABOUT KAMYAR KARIMI

Kamyar ‘Noak’ Karimi is a digital storyteller who believes that within the dynamic human global network, the interwebs of human stories are recursively retold within different media. His perspective on storytelling is reflected in his diverse career, which spans roles as a programmer, game designer, and sound designer. In his work, Karimi primarily uses code and sound to explore and expand the possibilities of storytelling in the realm of new media. This multi-disciplinary approach enables him to weave intricate narratives that resonate across various platforms, underpinning his philosophy that stories are a universal medium, continually evolving and reshaping themselves in the digital age.

ABOUT MACHINE AGENCIES:

Machine Agencies is an experiment between human and machine intelligences. We are a collection of researchers investigating artificial intelligence technologies, the culture of AI development, and AI’s social, political, and environmental consequences. We encourage cooperation and play, resisting the antagonism of more instrumental approaches of AI. Our members are working on fascinating projects that bridge the gaps between engineering, artistic creation, academic debate, policy development, and public discourse.

Machine Agencies is part of the Speculative Life Cluster at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University in Montreal. Machine Agencies draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

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