WORKSHOPS AT SLINGSHOT
Robots and music - with moritz simon Geist
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.
FINding your inner technoself - with Deantoni parks
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.
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.
WHere machine learning meets music - with DEBIT
STRUCTURING THE UNSTRUCTURED - with OHMU
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.
"Live Systems, Latent Worlds: Building Real-Time Neural Audio Instruments using RAVE and Max/MS - with Spiralynk
A hands on session where participants build a real time, ML powered audio instrument using neural synthesis tools like RAVE and nn~ in Max/MSP.
The workshop sits between a technical tutorial and a creative lab, and focuses on using neural networks as human in the loop, assistive instruments rather than fixed compositional tools.
Participants build a playable system from scratch, explore real time manipulation of latent space, and experiment with different control strategies using both traditional and algorithmic inputs.