3D audio concert of the series swim(spatial works and immersive music) 20. Mai
With the series swim (Spatial Works and Immersive Music), ZiMMT presents concerts and installations by 16 local and international artists who use sound in space in very different artistic-research ways. In three-day microresidencies they can try out new approaches and develop their concerts and sound installations with 3D audio technology. All concerts will be streamed live in high quality with binaural audio - for an expansive experience, on location and everywhere.
In the first half of the concert, Mariam Gviniashvili presents electroacoustic pieces composed during the last two years in a seamless and flowing multi-channel performance.The second part will be the German premiere of the audiovisual work RUINS, in which multi-channel composition and visuals merge.
It was inspired by the ruins of Soviet buildings in Georgia, which simultaneously frightened and fascinated Gviniashvili with their emotional power and mystical aura. The memory of this was reinforced by current images of cities destroyed in the ongoing war, which created the crucial impulse for RUINS.
Mariam Gviniashvili grew up in East Georgia and lives in Oslo today. She studied composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music and works as a sound artist and composer. Gviniashvili combines electronics, electroacoustics and 3D sound technology with visual elements, dance and live performance to dive deeply into the physical and emotional essence of sound and space. Her performances were once described as "anxious clouds of feedback and cybernetic sound design, conducted to feverish textures" that sound surreal and teem with life.Gviniashvili’s work has been presented internationally at prestigious festivals such as Ars Electronica (Austria) or the New York Electroacoustic Music Festival (USA).
RUINS was commissioned by Henie Onstad Art Centre and supported by the Norwegian Arts Council.
I questioned whether or not AI generative music could be emotive and cohesive. In the end, it was deeply emotive because hearing a machine sing like me was creepy, fascinating and inspiring at the same time.” - Portrait XO
Portrait XO (she/they) is a project of producer, singer and songwriter Rania Kim, in which she explores collaboration between man and machine. Compositions of generative algorithms serve as inspiration or as a conspiratorial mirror of one's own work and self. The AI's melodies and texts are sifted, completed and recombined. Alienation and familiarity melt together in the result: fragmented electronic sounds and glitches combine with catchy pop and soul melodies - sung as a neural duet between Rania Kim and AI, whose algorithm mimics her voice.
It is not only through her award-winning artistic collaboration with AI that Portrait XO operates in first row of new intersections between technology and art: Her album WIRE was released in late 2022 in NFT to vinyl format, as a virtual but still not identically reproducible work. With the art and activism collective CO:QUO (CO CREATE STATUS-QUO), Rania Kim also organizes a monthly radio residency on Refuge Worldwide Radio, runs the community and label Sound Obsessed, and co-founded the International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists (IASAS). She lives in Berlin.
During the show at ZiMMT Portrait XO - supported by Mazetools will be performing a new iteration of exploring gestures and real-time neural synthesis in spatial audio. She will be composing a new performance piece during her micro-residency here incorporating a spatialized version of some of her latest releases from her AI audiovisual album 'Wire'.
Pictures: Nina Buttendorf
3D audio concert of the series swim(spatial works and immersive music) 20. Mai
With the series swim (Spatial Works and Immersive Music), ZiMMT presents concerts and installations by 16 local and international artists who use sound in space in very different artistic-research ways. In three-day microresidencies they can try out new approaches and develop their concerts and sound installations with 3D audio technology. All concerts will be streamed live in high quality with binaural audio - for an expansive experience, on location and everywhere.
In the first half of the concert, Mariam Gviniashvili presents electroacoustic pieces composed during the last two years in a seamless and flowing multi-channel performance.The second part will be the German premiere of the audiovisual work RUINS, in which multi-channel composition and visuals merge.
It was inspired by the ruins of Soviet buildings in Georgia, which simultaneously frightened and fascinated Gviniashvili with their emotional power and mystical aura. The memory of this was reinforced by current images of cities destroyed in the ongoing war, which created the crucial impulse for RUINS.
Mariam Gviniashvili grew up in East Georgia and lives in Oslo today. She studied composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music and works as a sound artist and composer. Gviniashvili combines electronics, electroacoustics and 3D sound technology with visual elements, dance and live performance to dive deeply into the physical and emotional essence of sound and space. Her performances were once described as "anxious clouds of feedback and cybernetic sound design, conducted to feverish textures" that sound surreal and teem with life.Gviniashvili’s work has been presented internationally at prestigious festivals such as Ars Electronica (Austria) or the New York Electroacoustic Music Festival (USA).
RUINS was commissioned by Henie Onstad Art Centre and supported by the Norwegian Arts Council.
I questioned whether or not AI generative music could be emotive and cohesive. In the end, it was deeply emotive because hearing a machine sing like me was creepy, fascinating and inspiring at the same time.” - Portrait XO
Portrait XO (she/they) is a project of producer, singer and songwriter Rania Kim, in which she explores collaboration between man and machine. Compositions of generative algorithms serve as inspiration or as a conspiratorial mirror of one's own work and self. The AI's melodies and texts are sifted, completed and recombined. Alienation and familiarity melt together in the result: fragmented electronic sounds and glitches combine with catchy pop and soul melodies - sung as a neural duet between Rania Kim and AI, whose algorithm mimics her voice.
It is not only through her award-winning artistic collaboration with AI that Portrait XO operates in first row of new intersections between technology and art: Her album WIRE was released in late 2022 in NFT to vinyl format, as a virtual but still not identically reproducible work. With the art and activism collective CO:QUO (CO CREATE STATUS-QUO), Rania Kim also organizes a monthly radio residency on Refuge Worldwide Radio, runs the community and label Sound Obsessed, and co-founded the International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists (IASAS). She lives in Berlin.
During the show at ZiMMT Portrait XO - supported by Mazetools will be performing a new iteration of exploring gestures and real-time neural synthesis in spatial audio. She will be composing a new performance piece during her micro-residency here incorporating a spatialized version of some of her latest releases from her AI audiovisual album 'Wire'.
Pictures: Nina Buttendorf
