Collaboration as an act of creativity (2022)

For violin, multiple cognitive agents, live electronics, real-time notation system, and attendees participation. This work was premiered at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival in 2023. Maja Cerar interpreted the violin part.

Maja Cerar interpreting “Collaboration as an Act of Creativity” at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival.

“Collaboration as an act of creativity” is an algorithmic and interactive work, collectively created in real-time during the performance[1].  The score is created through multiple cognitive agents controlled by the attendees. The violinist receives the real-time notes composed by this system on his/her mobile phone. Each attendee controls a cognitive agent via a mobile device. “Collaboration as an Act of Creativity” is collectively created in real-time during the performance [2].  

Each attendee will use a mobile device to connect to a web server that will automatically assign a cognitive agent to him/her. The attendees will control their agent by selecting whether the agent is on or off and whether the cognitive agent is in a cooperative or competitive mode[2]. Each agent handles one voice of the composition. The violin will play one of the voices.

If the agent is working in the competitive mode, it will try to make the group’s most differentiated music [2]. If the agent is in the collaborative mode, it will try to imitate the music that the rest of the agents are producing. The notes that the violin player will play are created by a cognitive agent that is controlled by one of the attendees. The result is a mix of the violin sound, the real-time violin modification, and the synthesis of the sounds of the rest of the score.

Scheme of the work

Web page where the attendees control their cognitive agent.

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