Chamber Music from Mars
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Libero Mureddu (piano and keyboard) and Aino Juutilainen (cello, viola da gamba and electronics) improvise together since 2018. Their aesthetic is twofold: on one hand they performs with acoustic instruments exploring ideas related to algorithms and artificial intelligence. Their fascination resides on how nonhuman, machine-generated decisions sometimes seem more surprising and interesting than the ones created by a human mind. On the other hand, the duo uses digital and digitally modified instruments to create peaceful soundscapes that slowly evolve to wild trance-like states. This side of the project is the counterpart of the machine-directed music: here they praise the continuity of the music and the human factor in an otherwise nonhuman and digital sound world.
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In the videos below, two improvisations with instructions generated in real time by a software made with Max. The third video is an example of their work on slowly changing soundscapes.