Amos Ben-Tal

Amos Ben-Tal (Israel, 1979) is a musician, choreographer and artistic leader of the artist-collective OFFprojects. After studying classical guitar in his youth, Amos completed his dance training in 1997 at The National Ballet School in Toronto, Canada. He then moved to Holland where he danced at Nederlands Dans Theater for nine years. It is also at NDT where he developed his passion for choreography, making his debut in 2005 with the piece Track for NDT1. In 2012 Amos founded OFFprojects, an interdisciplinary collective of former dancers of NDT and Batsheva Ensemble. With his group he created several well-received performances among which 60, Howl (winner Dioraphte Dance Prize), Interval and PART. 

Choreographer and musician Amos Ben-Tal (OFFprojects) will lead a movement session where participants can explore various connections between their mind, body and other people in the space. The session is made up of instructions and suggestions that each person can interpret in their own way. The aim is to stimulate awareness, agility, creativity and connectedness – exploring both individual and collective movements. 

Anton Lambert

Anton Lambert is a Brussels-based sound artist and researcher who’s practice revolves around combining an acoustic instrument with live electronics through improvisation. He has collaborated on different interdisciplinary projects as a musician and sound designer. For his electronic music Anton records, collects and archives all sorts of sounds which he moulds and modifies. He bases his live shows on chance and algorithmic composition, combined with improvisation.

For his solo set, Anton performs with his double bass and a live electronics setup in which noise-based algorithms let the input of the acoustic bass trigger and interact with his sonic archive, the hardware and effects. The electronics build upon the sonic qualities of the acoustic instrument, broadens its sonic scope, and lets the acoustic instrument resonate with the electronic sound world. This creates a space for the performer to improvise and to go into dialogue with the machines. 

Dave Murray-Rust

Dave Murray-Rust is an Associate Professor at TU Delft, working in human-algorithm interaction – exploring the messy terrain between people, data and things through a combination of making and thinking. See info on academic work, with more detail on research, teaching and PhD supervision.

In his creative practice he engages with interactions between people and technology. This includes electronic music making (especially with laptop trio Raw Green Rust), building software for different kinds of musicking and a collection of technology based artworks.

‘artificial otoacoustics’ is an investigation into a physical deep learning synthesiser that comes to understand itself and its surrounding, exploring how a machine learning system with an unconventional soundmaking apparatus learns to produce sounds, and to use them in dialogue with humans.

The body of the piece is a light based synthesiser: spinning prisms, rotating mirrors and other objects refract a set of lights into phototransistors that creates evolving, grainy, organic electronic sounds. Around this, a deep learning system takes control of the input parameters: the speed of motors, intensity of lights, positions of actuators and so on. It continually samples the output, slowly learning the ways that it’s parameters of action shape the sounds coming out. Over time, by making many many sounds, the system learns both what sounds a set of parameters is likely to make, and also the best set of parameters to reproduce a sound from outside, opening up a terrain for sonic interaction.

Eiliyas

Eiliyas is a sound artist who has worked across mediums including installations and performances as well as audio zines and sonic essays. He is also the host and creator of the platform Mixtape Menage, a blog/podcast that aims to get to know the creators and cultural facilitators through their music collections. He also hosts this in a radio format on various community oriented radio platforms such as Refuge Worldwide, THF Radio, Berlin Community Radio(defunct) and Melodic Distraction in Liverpool.  

Seeking an alternative interface for music creation, a sonic feedback loop is created utilising various sonic processors for manipulating the sound. Although the initial premise was inspired by Thelonious Monk’s piano solos. The sonic output may seem quite different given the obvious fact that Eiliyas is a different person with different experiences and this method of sonic exploration stands in contrast to piano.