Synthetic Erudition Assist Lattice

Sofy Yuditskaya, Sophia Sun, and Margaret Schedel

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

The Seals are a political, feminist, noise, and AI-inspired electronic sorta-surf rock band composed of the talents of Margaret Schedel, Susie Green, Sophia Sun, Ria Rajan, and Sofy Yuditskaya, augmented by the S.E.A.L. (Synthetic Erudition Assist Lattice), as we call the collection of AIs that assist us in creating usable content with which to mold and shape our music and visuals. Our concerts begin by invoking one another through internet conferencing software; during the concert, we play skull augmented theremins while reading GPT2 & GPT3 (Machine Learning language models) generated dialogue over pre-generated songs. As a distributed band we designed our performance to take place over video conferencing systems deliberately incorporating the glitch artifacts that they bring. We use one of the oldest forms of generative operations, throwing dice, as well as the latest in ML technology to create our collaborative music over a distance. In this paper, we illustrate how we leverage the multiple novel interfaces that we use to create our unique sound.

Citation:

Sofy Yuditskaya, Sophia Sun, and Margaret Schedel. 2021. Synthetic Erudition Assist Lattice. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.0282a79c

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME21_77,
 abstract = {The Seals are a political, feminist, noise, and AI-inspired electronic sorta-surf rock band composed of the talents of Margaret Schedel, Susie Green, Sophia Sun, Ria Rajan, and Sofy Yuditskaya, augmented by the S.E.A.L. (Synthetic Erudition Assist Lattice), as we call the collection of AIs that assist us in creating usable content with which to mold and shape our music and visuals. Our concerts begin by invoking one another through internet conferencing software; during the concert, we play skull augmented theremins while reading GPT2 & GPT3 (Machine Learning language models) generated dialogue over pre-generated songs. As a distributed band we designed our performance to take place over video conferencing systems deliberately incorporating the glitch artifacts that they bring. We use one of the oldest forms of generative operations, throwing dice, as well as the latest in ML technology to create our collaborative music over a distance. In this paper, we illustrate how we leverage the multiple novel interfaces that we use to create our unique sound.},
 address = {Shanghai, China},
 articleno = {77},
 author = {Yuditskaya, Sofy and Sun, Sophia and Schedel, Margaret},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.0282a79c},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/FmTbEUyePXg},
 title = {Synthetic Erudition Assist Lattice},
 url = {https://nime.pubpub.org/pub/5oupvoun},
 year = {2021}
}