aletheia

Audio
Composed by
Axel Chemla--Romeu-Santos
Instrument(s)
sampler
With electronics
yes
Music and...
Other
Technologies
Real-time interaction, Other
Work premiered
January 2021
Venue of the premiere
Cirque Electrique, Paris (France)
Duration
20 minutes

aletheia is a musical piece based on exploring, transforming, hacking, bending, and interplaying with generative audio models. Referring to the pre-socratic notion of aletheia, this piece illustrates the discovery of reality of neural audio synthesis by going from a pure phenomenological perception to an imitation game, yielding to a deranging and coercive version of reality. Besides attempting a reflexive work between philosophical aspects of reality and exploration of model’s rules through deviation, aletheia is motivated by the experimental development of new approaches to compose and interact with neural generative models, and by which new aesthetics they can provide.