ARTIST LED WORKSHOPS
Touch Designer IN PRACTICE - PRESENTED BY RHIZOME
Saturday, February 21 from 2:00-3:00 in the Blackbox @ G2A Warehouse
RESONA is an interactive sound installation featuring artists working critically with art, code, and AI in Mumbai The art installation features the collaboration of 4 generative artists, 6 musicians, and festival guests for an intimate sound installation curated to showcase innovative artists from India working critically with art and technology. Festival guests act as the third collaborator, engaging with the piece through walking, meditation, and touch.
Join three of the four generative artists, Jasan Waldura, Dennis Fabian Peter, and Vinay Khare as they discuss their practices with Danica Newell from rhizome.org. The artists will share how they created evolving visual compositions for this unique environment. You will learn about their use of Touch Designer and creative code, how they blend visuals with sound in their interactive works, and what is most meaningful to them in their individual practices and collaborative works.
Open session for all attendees - No sign-up required
Robots & music - with moritz simon Geist
Sunday, February 22 from 2:00-3:00 in the Blackbox @ G5A Warehouse
Join sound artist Moritz Simon Geist for an exploration of robotic electronic music.
In this workshop, the German sound Artists and robotic musician, will show participants how to create electronic music using robotics, upcycling physical objects ranging from everyday materials to advanced kinetic systems. We will use CLAUDE to support coding for an electronic sensor setup, then use that system to control a music robotics platform.
You’ll discover how to connect DIY instrument design with techno production to build a futuristic, audiovisual performance practice.
The session offers insights into the creative workflow of robotic researcher Moritz Simon Geist, including reflections on the impact of AI on the future of art.
Registration Closed
FINding your inner technoself - with Deantoni parks
Sunday, February 22 from 3:15-4:15 in the Blackbox @ G5A Warehouse
Drummer and technologist Deantoni Parks takes you on a journey in “Finding Your Inner Technoself." This is an immersive in-person experience exploring Parks’ philosophy that biological beings are superior technology, and how one can use the body as the primary instrument and external tools as interfaces for flow, creativity, and expanding artistic expression beyond traditional hardware/software limitation,and where AI can fit into this new way of being.
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WHere machine learning meets music - with DEBIT
Saturday, February 21 from 2:30-3:30 in Port @ G5A Warehouse
This workshop uses Desaceleradas and The Long Count as concrete entry points into how music archives move across time. It traces sound from physical media and archival care into digitization, dataset construction, and AI driven generation. You will see how decisions made at each stage of the pipeline shape what is preserved, what is flattened, and what becomes generative memory. The session focuses on music as time based material and asks how meaning, tech sensibilities and music aesthetics shifts as archives pass through technical systems built for scale, reuse, and automation.
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STRUCTURING THE UNSTRUCTURED - with OHMU
Saturday, February 21 from 3:15-4:15 in the Blackbox @ G5A Warehouse
Structuring the Unstructured: Ambient musician and sonic collagist, OHMU demonstrates how to do asynchronous organic looping for improvisation, composition, and live performance in both hardware and Ableton live. In addition, the musician/designer will show how he uses Claude for constructing visual elements for his show.
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Live Systems, Latent Worlds: Building Real-Time Neural Audio Instruments with AI Co-Design - with Spiralynk
Sunday, February 22 from 2:30-3:30 in Port @ G5A Warehouse
His hands-on session explores how real-time neural audio systems can function as performable instruments rather than automated composition tools. Participants will build a playable instrument in Max using neural synthesis models such as RAVE, and experiment with shaping and navigating latent space in real time.
The workshop frames the instrument as an ecology of three interacting layers of intelligence: latent space intelligence encoded in the model, performer intelligence expressed through gesture and control, and linguistic intelligence introduced through large language models such as Claude as meta-design collaborators. Rather than generating sound directly, Claude is used to propose control strategies, behavioural mutations, and system logic that participants translate into patch structures.
The result is not an AI performance tool, but a co-designed system where human agency, neural representation, and language-based reasoning intersect inside a live instrument.
Registration Closed