CAT IN LOOP X CATINBLACK
Through an interactive and recursive process of listening, playing, and performing, we collaboratively brought an imaginative CAT to life—enacting a posthuman subject-in-progress: a relational, embedded, and embodied “we” that moves fluidly across environmental, cognitive, technological, visual, and sonic realities. ‘Vampnet’, developed by Hugo Flores Garcia, is a AI model trained to re-write parts of an audio input, i.e. “vamp” on it. Fine-tuned on cat-inspired audio data - mixing real, synthetic and imagined cat gesture sounds, this model allows us to creatively reinterpret sounds in a cat-like manner both in expected and unexpected ways. We procedurally adapted the system with creative inputs from the catinblack ensemble and engineers during a four-session HGNM residency at Harvard. Throughout the process, a palette of sonic and gestural vocabularies was co-developed with the ensemble as the piece gradually took shape.
#Concert
#Generative AI Music
#Posthuman Listening
2025 -
