Music & AI

Kasper Jordaens - kaotec []<>

@kaosbeat

who am I

artist architect

researcher engineer

My artistic practice is rooted in the hacker culture where technology is liberated from its intended use and the freedom to operate and use technology for the purpose of new applications is encouraged. Hacking involves disrupting the status quo and challenging artificial limits on technology set by business or political actors. So called hacktivism challenges how society adopts and uses (new) technologies. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has become ubiquitous and this impacts how I reflects on my artistic process. AI is no longer just a tool, but also an inspiration and collaborator in a creative process. The age of post-human creativity has begun and I push technology through in his artistic research, installations and livecoding performances all while maintaining the ever so important bond with the human soul and questioning the technology itself.

I build stuff

I make noise

kaotec []<>

BOTBOP

de portables

Uuflaki Space Station

de portables - Uuflaki Space Station

I break stuff

latent inversion

data leak

data intersect studies

AI and Music?

technology

legal

money

creativity

technology

if it is just a statistical model,
can it create art?

how to become a good AI artist?

wanna get lucky?

easy peasy

The nine-thousand series
is the most reliable computer ever made.
No nine-thousand computer has ever
made a mistake or distorted information.
We are all,
by any practical definition of the words,
foolproof and incapable of error.
...

HAL 9000 - Stanley Kubrick: 2001 A Space Oddesey

make no mistake

AI MODELS CANNOT MAKE MISTAKES

humans program mistakes

AI is a machine, not a living thing, definitely not intelligent. It simulates intelligence.

LEGAL

data

GIGO

garbage in, garbage out

SLOP

money and power

serotonine shot business

arms race

prompt engineers

creativity

curation

keep the human in the loop

BOTBOP

botbop

"KEEP THE HUMAN IN THE LOOP"
Om muziek te maken met AI zijn we er dus nog niet, maar wij hebben er met botbop wel iets op gevonden… Botbop is een band, de naam komt voort uit “robot bebop”. Opgestart in tijdens corona, als een onderzoek om te kijken of we een computerbandlid zouden kunnen maken vormen om mee samen te spelen kreeg het project een interessante wending toen we uitgenodigd werden om op Sonar in Barcelona te spelen. De vraag was of we een live instrument konden toevoegen. Andrew Claes had al langer een idee op de plank liggen om met strijkers te spelen en de beats van Dago Sondervan en live AI gestuurde compositie van Andrew werden met 8 maten vertraging omgezet in partituren die een strijkkwartet a prima vista interprteerde en speelden. Keep the humans in the loop! Experiment and do stuff that has not been done before