i sing the body electric
a multimedia performance that combines original works for piano, percussion, live-electronics, dancer, AI-agent & digital painting. With a core of acoustic sound augmented by manually activated electronics, audio frequencies get processed through a neural network to generate visual textures, morphing in time to the music.
Berlin-based composer and pianist, Michaela Catranis, uses this unique tool (SHEEN) designed by AI-specialists Nikolay Jetchev and Duncan Blythe for the first time live. The idea stems from the theme “human_machine”. Combining acoustic writing and live performance with emerging AI, we create a space to explore the relationship between humankind and technology. How does the artist respond to the digital realities? How does technology help us transcend physical limitations of our instrument(s) and what kind of art would that look like, the human and machine, not as polarities but as a synergetic, co-evolving force?
