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Today (Dream Mix) by @agcook ☁️  Dream Logic out Friday 12th March 2021 ☁️ Artwork by Timothy Luke

Today (Dream Mix)

Commissioned and performed by Crash Ensemble, with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland 2020

Smock Alley Theatre, New Music Dublin 2021

24 April 2021

Neural synthesis by Dadabots, AI video elements by James Kelleher

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deep model A type of neural network containing multiple hidden layers.
model worker An exemplary, productive labourer. Also udarnik, shock worker, Stakhanovite etc. Common in Communist states.

DEEP MODEL WORKER is a radical journey through the underbelly of artificial intelligence, centring labour and the increasing augmentation of human life and art. In it:

~Crash Ensemble duet with their AI counterparts, birthed from a neural network trained on the CrashLands album. That record’s copyrighted original work by contemporary composers is reimagined here, not as direct samples, but entirely new audio produced by the neural network’s unsupervised deep learning.

~~AI-generated images of people that ‘do not exist’, authentic fake subjects, dream in hyperreality.

~~~Real-world characters working in tech, soon to be replaced entirely by AI, speak of their precarious role in the mode of production.

~~~~AI replacements for supermarket labour express sympathy with their dwindling human coworkers.

Deep Model Worker

The Disturbing Tale of the Naked Man and the Ferris Wheel

Four movements are embedded in this piece—corresponding to the four classical elements. The cello part spans the entire expressive capability of the instrument from the rich, earthy creaking to ethereal harmonics.

Cello Soloist: Julia Barahal
Conductor: Hans Leenders
Ensemble: Students of the Rotterdams Conservatorium
Recording: Viktor Velthuijs

Performed here (at the premiere) in Korzo, Den Haag 0n 19/01/19.

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Body Resonance (Cello Concerto)

[HOSANNA IN EXCELSIS]
For 14 cellos and 4 trombones and offstage trombone quintet.

A c. 1500 fragment of music from the 'York Masses' (a setting of 'Hosanna in Excelsis') is used for the offstage quintet part. The fragment is sounded twice whilst the rest of the ensemble responds to, and de-constructs the historical sound.

https://borthcat.york.ac.uk/index.php/music-1

Conductor: Mikel Fernandez Rodríguez.
Played by the cellos and trombones classes of Rotterdam Conservatorium on 26/05/19.

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[HOSANNA IN EXCELSIS]

Composed by Bill Evans.

Arranged and performed by Victoria Benito.

Waltz Ad Nauseam

Victoria Benito

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