In 2021, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “Convergence” by Alexander Schubert (Digital Musics & Sound Art) with the Golden Nica. Explore 1 other work by Alexander Schubert below.
Convergence uses the concept of Artificial Intelligence to learn features of human musicians and then recreate new entities based on these recordings. In the piece the players interact with their generated counter-parts. They see theirselves transform and reshape.
About Alexander Schubert
Alexander Schubert (DE) (1979) studied bioinformatics, multimedia composition. He’s a professor at the Musikhochschule Hamburg. Schubert’s interest explores the border between the acoustic and electronic world.
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.