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An Invention in Search of a Problem

Fifteen years ago I first heard about a method that makes comb filters disappear when summing multiple microphones. Patented at the Institut für Rundfunktechnik, never turned into a product. Using AI agents, I rebuilt it in ten days, first as a Python prototype, then as a working plugin. And then came the double-blind test.

Kassandra

Kassandra, daughter of Priam and a seer, looks back on her life after the fall of Troy — in the face of her own death. In Bielefeld, Christa Wolf’s novel became an interdisciplinary music theatre work between drama and orchestra — conceived as a collaborative compositional process.

Don Giovanni

What’s a sound designer doing in Mozart? In Don Giovanni at Aix, the collaboration with Sir Simon Rattle and Robert Icke led to an unusual rehearsal process — and one clear insight: an idea is not enough. You have to carry it through all resistance.

4 Quiet Pieces for Accordion in Just Intonation

The just intonation differs clearly from the usual equal temperament in its sound but also in its practicability. On this accordion a third C-E sounds clear and free from beating, while the third B-D, for example, sounds totally sloped and crooked. This offers not only the possibility of playing particularly pure sounds, but also, in a particularly charming way, to play wonderfully iridescently "wrong". This "wrong sounding" is not the result of a randomly detuned accordion, but is determined in an audibly conscious and concrete way.

MLure.art

Most of my current blogging is happening here at the moment: https://MLure.art is a new central blog covering artistic research projects related to Machine Learning (= Artificial Intelligence) in theatre and music.