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Ancestral (R)evocations

Ancestral (R)evocations - Tate Modern

CollaboratedwithartistErikaTantorealiseasemanticsounddatasonificationsystemaspartofherAncestral(R)evocationsinstallationatTateModern’sTanks(October2024).ItrainedIrcam’sRealtimeAudioVariationalAutoEncoder(RAVE)onacustomdatasetrecordedon-site,andengineeredaninteractivemachinelearning-basedaudiosystemthatenabledreal-timemanipulationofthemodel’slatentspace.Thesystemmappedarchivalmetadatatogenerativeaudioparameters,integratedwithgranularsynthesisinPureData,andwasoptimisedforlivegalleryperformancewithstableresponsivenessacrosshardwareandsoftwarelayers.ThisDIYdiagnostictool,comprisingfragmentedinstrumentsandmechanisedcomponents,functionedasalive,hybridinterventionintoancestralandarchivaltraces—bridgingperformance,sound,video,andcomputationallabour.ToolsusedincludedPython,PyTorch,PureData,andOSC.

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