I am very happy that my project "Teleonomies – Intelligence: Artificial and Complex" has been awarded a one-year artistic research grant from the Musikfonds (STIP-5).
I've been working intensively on the project since the start of the year and look forward to expanding the research further in the coming months.
The question of how AI and physical machines can actively become co-creators of musical processes lies at the heart of this work. I am currently developing a system in which a swarm of modular robots, floating on a specially constructed air table, explores the relationships between data, movement and sound, thereby giving rise to new musical realities. The installation examines how machine agents not only process data, but also translate it into spatial and sonic experiences. The focus is on complex systems, self-organisation and the question of how musical form can emerge in real time from local interactions.
What fascinates me most is the idea of music as a process: composition not as defining a finished work, but as designing the conditions for a system to unfold on its own.
The project builds on earlier work that I began over ten years ago during a residency at the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Zurich, under the supervision of Rolf Pfeifer, and takes this work further within the intersection of AI, robotics and algorithmic composition.
I am very much looking forward to the coming months and to sharing insights into the research process.
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