Open AI CEO Sam Altman recently published a short essay called “The Intelligence Age.” Not dissimilar from various essays by other Silicon Valley figures, his obsessions with growth and scale are evident throughout the text. Instead of composing an essayistic …
Note: In June 2016, I wrote the essay below to capture my thoughts on then-conventional approaches to AI music creation. I didn’t publish it, though some related ideas went into a DARPA proposal that was funded (with colleague Kelland Thomas). …
The cover of NXS #2: Synthetic Selves Context This past summer I received an invitation to contribute to the European magazine NXS. NXS is an experimental biannual publication that: …aims to explore the emotional and sensual side of hardware, software …
You like my like of your like of my status is a sound and video installation. Each screen follows a progressive generative text pattern of increasingly “liking” each others’ “likes”. The text is spoken using a real-time speech synthesis engine, …
More Like This examines the interactions that occur within a metricated musical environment. There are four primary performers: each of the two saxophonists, a live artificial intelligence system (AI), and the audience. Each contributes to the work in one or …
Computers Watching Movies shows what a computational system sees when it watches the same films that we do. The work illustrates this vision as a series of temporal sketches, where the sketching process is presented in synchronized time with the …
Our everyday interactions are increasingly mediated by technology, be they mobile phones, chat systems, or social networking sites. These systems are designed to anticipate and support our needs and desires while facilitating those interactions. As these systems grow in complexity, …
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The pace of cuts in reality TV has been steadily increasing, and now often obfuscates the content it presents. In fact, this increase is common throughout temporal media and has been accelerating for years. I’m interested in the potential effects …
Genetic Algorithms in Composition and Sound Synthesis, otherwise known as GACSS (pronounced “gax”), was an original sound synthesis program I wrote and used between 1992-1998. GACSS allows the composer to graphically visualize and imagine new sounds at the waveform period …