Creating a White Noise Instrument for Collaborative Improvisation

Austin Oting Har; Kurt Mikolajczyk

Image credit: Austin Oting Har; Kurt Mikolajczyk

• Format: poster
• Session: posters-1
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• Presence: in person
• Duration: 5
• Type: short

Abstract:

This paper introduces shiki, a virtual instrument developed for performing Renga for White Noise, an interdisciplinary project that transmediates Japanese renga poetry principles into a framework for collaborative improvisation with human and AI agents. We discuss two areas: (1) our transmediation of renga’s structuring principles into shiki’s design (2) the technical aspects behind the AI agent’s performance with shiki. Through its interdisciplinary and intercultural entanglements with renga, transmediation as a method can illuminate new perspectives on the design and performance of NIMEs.