Created by Leandro Garber and Tomás Ciccola in 2019, the Analysis and Sensitive Representation of Data research team focuses on the development of software tools for the study, experimentation and generation of images and sounds using artificial intelligence techniques.

Director: Leandro Garber (UNTREF)

Research students: Ramiro Arsanto (UNTREF), Dai Perséfone Miauro (UNTREF), Santiago Fernandez (UNTREF), Luca Telmo Gomez (UNTREF), Matias Azulay (UNTREF)

Graduate thesis students: Tomás Ciccola (UNTREF), Máximo Signorini (UNTREF), Luis Zunino (UNTREF), Cristian Añon (UNTREF) y Juan Sesali (UNTREF)

Past research students: Luca Belloti, Florencia Pasquali, Laila Meliz, Gabriel Ruiz Varela, Sabrina García y Sofia Efrón.

 

 

Director: Leandro Garber (UNTREF)

Research students: Ramiro Arsanto (UNTREF), Dai Perséfone Miauro (UNTREF), Santiago Fernandez (UNTREF), Luca Telmo Gomez (UNTREF), Matias Azulay (UNTREF)

Graduate thesis students: Tomás Ciccola (UNTREF), Máximo Signorini (UNTREF), Luis Zunino (UNTREF), Cristian Añon (UNTREF) y Juan Sesali (UNTREF)

Past research students: Luca Belloti, Florencia Pasquali, Laila Meliz, Gabriel Ruiz Varela, Sabrina García y Sofia Efrón.

The project focuses on the development of software tools for the study, experimentation and generation of images and sounds using artificial intelligence techniques.

Stand at Project Area

June 2024

AudioStellar was presented at Sònar+D (Barcelona) in front of an international specialized audience. Artists, investors, musicians and visitors were able to learn about the project and test the software using different physical interfaces. 

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Artistic residency

June 2024

During the Konvent Zero residency (Cal Rosal, Spain) a live performance  was carried out with audio generated in real time from the tracking of Laila Meliz’s movement and Leandro Garber’s execution. The work plan included field recordings that involved the soundscape of the place (the Zone) with the everyday sound of those who inhabit it (the Individual): focusing the recording on the minimal sounds produced by the objects that dwell in Cal Rosal and reproducing them through unconventional heuristics that involve body and AI.

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Audiovisual performance of dance and technology

May 2024

 

Within the framework of the Festival of Innovation and Social Technology (FITS), the AudioStellar team gave a performance during the opening of the event.

 

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Talk and installation at the Dvnepark Cultural Center

April 2024

Invited by the duo Qualia, the members of the AudioStellar project gave a talk in the context of “Dvnepark Educativo”. In addition, an interactive demo was played.

 

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AudioStellar 1.4 version released

January 2024

 

The software update included improvements in sound quality and DSP performance, a refreshed visual aesthetic with customizable color palettes, an improved user interface, MIDI keyboard support, new OSC features for greater flexibility, and a Flatpak version for Linux users.

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Audiovisual performance, dance and technology in the Soundscape series

September 2023

The performance Territorios Sonoros Emergentes is an audiovisual proposal of dance and technology that explores new interfaces of sound expression and techno-futuristic rites. Three performers establish a symbiotic relationship with an artificial intelligence. Through the sensing of their bodies in movement, they travel through a sound territory that emerges from this singular human/machine link.

 

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Informative talk at MUTEK

September 2023

The AudioStellar software was presented during the MUTEK International Festival of Digital Creativity and Electronic Music held at the Arjaus.

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Movement: Territorios Sonoros Emergentes at LAE 2023

August 2023

In the context of the Electronic Arts Laboratory of Tecnópolis, a readaptation of the performance Territorios Sonoros Emergentes, an audiovisual proposal of dance and technology that explores new interfaces of sound expression and techno-futuristic rites, was presented.

 

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Sound installation: Local minimums at Galería Acéfala

August 2023

A territory comprising regions of minimal sounds: a cup resting on a table, the microwave button, pages turning in a book, a guitar murmuring a possible melody. Everyday events of an intimate sunday are fragmented, dissected and decontextualized by a post-human artificial entity that tries to study their singularity. The sounds are organized and presented to be explored by autonomous agents that re-signify them through generative sequences and stochastic movements.

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AAEE Festival 3rd edition

July 2023

 

The first version of the performance Territorios Sonoros Emergentes was presented within the framework of the Festival de Artes Electrónicas organized by the students of the Electronic Arts Degree at UNTREF.

 

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AudioStellar Seminar

May 2023

The members of the AudioStellar project gave a class for the students of different years of the Sonology degree at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, Spain.

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AudioStellar Workshop

May 2023

After an invitation from the audiovisual group Telenoika, the AudioStellar team gave a one-week practical workshop focused on the use of the software for artistic creation.

 

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Conference at IRCAM

May 2023

 

The AudioStellar project was presented as part of the “Mecredis de STMS” talks at the invitation of the laboratory “Analyse et synthèse des sons du laboratoire STMS” (Ircam/Sorbonne Université/CNRS/Ministère de la Culture).

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Seminar at Pompeu Fabra

May 2023

In the context of the Music Technology Group (MTG) of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) the AudioStellar project team gave a seminar to present the software. MTG is a research group specialized in audio signal processing, music information retrieval, music interfaces and computational musicology.









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Improvisations in the latent space

October 2022

Within the framework of the Electronic Arts Laboratory 2022 at Tecnópolis, an audiovisual performance was developed that explored the musical possibilities of AudioStellar accompanied by a visual universe.

 

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AI Music Creativity 2022 (AIMC2022) in Tokyo. Audio-visual piece by Agustín Spinetto and Andrés Duarte Loza using AudioStellar.

September 14th, 2022

For this work, Andrés Duarte Loza created a large set of audio samples using the Japanese musical instrument Koto. Agustín Spinetto assembled these samples with Japanese percussion and used AudioStellar to create a performance in which the various melodies looped by the Koto are supported by AI. They are also modified by an autonomous generative process that gradually replaces the loops with other samples, which the software assumes to share some sonic characteristics.

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AudioStellar stand at “DIGI LAB: local brands of Technology and Instruments” within the framework of MUTEK.AR 2022.

September 9th, 2022

MUTEK is an international festival of electronic music and audiovisual arts held in different countries throughout the year. At the 2022 edition of MUTEK.AR, Buenos Aires, the AudioStellar project team was invited to present their software in the Artlab space. Two datasets were showcased that visitors could play using different MIDI interfaces, including the first customised interface resulting from a collaboration with Yaeltex, ESTELA.

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Sonic Constellations: experimental luthiery and artificial intelligence workshop at Fundación OSDE

July 2022

Leandro Garber and Julio Nusdeo gave a workshop that sought to trace a common ground between the musical scene of sound artists – who use as instruments objects they intervened or created themselves – and the search for new sonic strategies through the use of the so-called artificial intelligence techniques.

To this end, the workshop hinged on the production of analogue sound objects that communicate with AudioStellar, thus establishing exchanges between digital and analogue situations. This real-time feedback made it possible to design a sound ecosystem with elements that start from dissimilar universes and mutually condition and expand.

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AudioStellar at the BILIA – Latin American Biennial of Artificial Intelligence in Mexico City.

April 5th to10th, 2022 

The members of the AudioStellar project were invited to the first edition of the BILIA by Julieta Agriano, founder of the platform “WIP Arte Digital”, Latin American Biennial of Artificial Intelligence. At this event, they conducted a hackathon for three consecutive days. The attendees, ranging from musicians and performers to economics students, were excited to use the creative possibilities of AudioStellar.

During those days basic software concepts were taught and the visitors met in interdisciplinary groups, discussed ideas and built different prototypes: a motion sensor where performers can play AudioStellar by means of body gestures, a sonification of GDP data from different countries and a connection between Arduino and AudioStellar to enable the use of proximity sensors.

There was also a concert where two pieces were performed with AudioStellar as the main instrument with various musicians from the Live Coding scene in Mexico City sharing the stage.

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Installation of AudioStellar in the Agora Cycle

April 9th, 2022

The members of the AudioStellar project were invited by the Ágora cycle to be part of its “Human Gen” edition in the Estudio 1+1 space. On this occasion they set up an interactive installation in a booth where users were invited to play an AudioStellar session using a MIDI controller and body movements tracked with a webcam fitted with an artificial intelligence algorithm.

 

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AudioStellar in Vertigo. Residency at the Centro de Arte Sonoro

October 2021

“AudioStellar in Vertigo” is a sound collaboration between Leandro Garber and Julio Nusdeo. It is a blend of AudioStellar and free improvisation and feedback with instruments made by Nusdeo. This ensemble takes place between digital and real-world situations, inter-modulated and intervened by springs, strings. and waste material fed back by the actions of AudioStellar.

The residency included a talk, an open radio rehearsal and ended with an 8-channel participatory sound installation in the Patio of the Casa del Bicentenario. The participants were invited to interact with the different instruments created by Nusdeo, which also activate the AudioStellar sound environment.

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AudioStellar at NIME 2019

June 2019

Leandro Garber and Tomás Ciccola traveled to Brazil to present a demo version of AudioStellar. The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) were held at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sol between June 3 and 6.

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AudioStellar at the Tokyo University of the Arts

June 2019

AudioStellar project was presented at the workshop on Artificial Intelligence applied to Music Composition held at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Agustín Spinetto gave a talk about AudioStellar sampler-like software instrument and how it uses AI to generate a 2D intelligent audio map to organize audio samples by their audio spectrally characteristics.