Orpheus's Machines
February 27, 2025
19:00 - 21:00
EPFL Pavillons, MED building hall, Route des Noyerettes, Lausanne
Epfl Pavillons
Concert
The Research cluster Music, Technology and Thought presents a concert in the framework of the Musica ex Machina: Machines Thinking Musically exhibition. The audience is invited in an exploratory performance in which ten performers, installed at tables around the space, play, manipulate or interact with experimental means of music creation.
Music is often seen in a binary state of human or mechanical. In the context of the current exhibition Musica ex Machina, artist-researchers explore the space in between. They present new and extended instruments, novel interfaces, repurposed everyday objects and the space itself. We experience the interplay of musicians and algorithms, from the mechanical to AI, in composition, improvisation and installation, to probe the inherent technicity of music and music-making.
Sound installations | 19h–19h30
- Simon Waters – Line
- Nicolas Collins – Long Fetch
Performances | 19h30–21h
- Nicholas Brown – Bellfounding
- MTT with Matthew Wright – Five interventions derived from Frederic Rzewski — Second Structure (1972)
- Magno Caliman – Machina
- Chonglian Yu – Rewinding the Moments
- Juan Parra Cancino / Brice Soniano / Jonathan Impett – Three States of Wax
- Andrea Agostini – Urbanistica Nomadica
- Elise Salverda – Clock time
