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Triptych - Alla Yanovsky | Josep Manuel Berenguer

by Alla Yanovsky | Josep Manuel Berenguer

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Movement for Daxophone & Spanish Guitar 13:48
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Movement for Flute & Spanish Guitar 14:37
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Movement for Daxophone, Flute & Spanish Guitar 15:16
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This work is the result of a series of recording sessions that Alla Yanovsky and Josep Manuel Berenguer carried out in Barcelona at Hangar.org and with the collaboration of the Orquestra del Caos. The project of this work was very open from the beginning. It consisted of improvisation inspired by the productions of a group of sixteen virtual machines, which, in turn, would start from the sound productions of the human performers to generate their behavior, actually, also, improvisations. It might seem that with such a loop there was a risk of falling into absurd feedback, but it was not like that at all. The material that was generated is too complex and changeable for the iterations of the computational agents involved in the process to always occur in the same places. In this case, feedback became an essential element of creation. In fact, there are those who base intelligence on that characteristic so typical of metabolic processes, including those of neurons, where feedback is, most of the time, negative; that is, they generate a lower output level in response to higher input levels.

Those that behave inversely, the positive ones, which deliver a higher output level at higher input levels, end up in saturation, but they can also generate unexpected situations, because when the systems reach their limit of resistance to stress, demons come out from everywhere in the form of swirls and fluctuations. They are chaotic processes that, ultimately, often involve noise of various kinds.

In the case of Triptych and all the other music where Autoimpro, the software developed by Berenguer based on the behavior of computational agents that improvise based on the input that humans provide, it is the set of events itself that determines more events, in a tangle of cross-feedbacks that no single will has sufficient influence or can disentangle.

A tangle of human and machine wills, Triptych is a piece in three movements where the performers investigate the properties of their expanded instruments, testing the response capacity of the machines, always knowing that despite using some technologies that are part of the conglomerate what today we call Artificial Intelligence, what is important is, above all, art, which is beyond the canonical organization of materials, to which, over time, we become accustomed and confused with art, when, actually, it is nothing more than an epiphenomenon of artistic reflections about the world.

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released January 11, 2023

Alla Yanovsky | Josep Manuel Berenguer for Elektramusic Berlin - Paul Clouvel

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