Reiko Yamada (JP) "Studies on Wigner Function"

Reiko Yamada is a composer and sound artist, originally from Hiroshima, Japan. Yamada holds a Doctorate degree in music composition from McGill University, and is a recipient of numerous prestigious awards and fellowship, such as 2015-16 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study of Harvard University. Her works have been presented in venues such as The Metropolitan Museum Breuer (New York), and Sónar Festival (Barcelona). She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at ICFO (Institute for Photonic Sciences).

“Studies on Wigner Function” is an ongoing cycle of pieces, work-in-progress experiment in sonification of a complex quantum equation. The goal of the project is to present several sonification mapping strategies to hopefully provide as much intuitive sense as possible of the Wigner function. The data was prepared by Eloy Pinol Jimenez, Philipp Stammer and Dr. Maciej Lewenstein at ICFO.

Juliette Tudoce (ES) "Echoes in Transition"

In this piece, the elusive patterns of the quantum world are given voice. The Wigner function, usually confined to the abstract, unfolds into sound—each parameter a subtle gesture shaping a living, evolving space. As the tones ripple through the ambisonic field, they reflect the delicate balance between order and uncertainty, inviting the listener into the hidden symmetries of the quantum realm.

As the boundaries between science and art blur, let these echoes invite you into the mysteries of existence, where every whisper holds the potential of all things.

Felipe González de la Maza (ES) “Formalized Wigner Fields”

Formalized Wigner Fields offers a sonification of the evolution of complex quantum systems, connecting science and art through stochastic and synthesis techniques. Inspired by the principles of Iannis Xenakis' "Formalized Music" and Reiko Yamada's paper "Sonification of Wigner Functions: Case Study of Intense Light-Matter Interactions," the piece explores the dynamic transition from a quantum kitten state to a Fock state, creating a soundscape that reflects quantum transitions and interferences.

Nicola Privato (IS), "Mouja+"

Despite its extensive application in many artistic endeavors, generative AI in live music is still in its early stages. This is mainly due to the real-time requirements of performed music, where intuitive, immediate and reactive systems are often preferred. During the last year, I developed a setup for live performance using Neural Audio Synthesis. The system features two interfaces I designed at the Intelligent Instruments Lab, that leverage the playful and surprising interactions of magnets to control a series of AI models. The shape and interactions of these instruments are reminiscent of the Ouija boards used in spiritist sessions, and I use them to summon, explore and displace in the sonic space acoustic cryptids, conjured from the multidimensional foldings of the latent space.

Mouja+ is a further step in the evolution of my system that will be premiered at SWRL. It features a new pipeline, pairing latent navigation and timbre transfer performed on a real-time autoencoder (RAVE) with a diffusion model (Stable Audio). This system allows the generation and combination of structured sounds via textual prompts and their real-time resynthesis with my magnetic instruments, thus combining the potential of generative AI with the expressive capabilities of real-time neural synthesis.

Nicola Privato is a PhD researcher at The Intelligent Instruments Lab in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he delves into how artificial intelligence is reshaping culture and social interactions through music practice. He will also present a workshop in neural audio synthesis and interfaces for the technique, based on his research (https://nicolaprivato.com/papers).

Dario Sanfilippo (IT), "Constructing Realities"

Constructing Realities is a piece for a complex adaptive system and a performer interfaced via microphones and loudspeakers. The digital signal processing (DSP) network is provided with a sensing infrastructure in the sound domain, and an adaptation network recursively reshapes the DSP topologies, relationships and the sensing mechanisms themselves. The result is an autonomous system that responds to external and internal conditions and explores a continuous (though limited by the software data type) behavioral space that generates long-term coherence and formal developments. The performer, another agent within a larger recursive network involving microphones, loudspeakers, environment, and DSP, interacts by altering the physical topology of the network.

Seimurs Guseinovs (LV)

Seimurs Guseinovs aka @dr.saymoreacid is Riga based DJ and electronic music artist, mainly in the field of experimental and industrial techno. Opposite to the raw and dirty sound of techno he is focused on drone, ambient, and acid house music. Curator of ‘distorted vision’ show at ‘tīrkultura’ radio and founder of underground venue organization 'ĒNĀ' (@ena.riga)

Rolands Kronlaks (LV) "Escape Landscape"

In my search for material for my work I looked into the world of the flute's diverse playing techniques. By spectrally analysing flute techniques and reconstructing them with various experimental methods, I stumbled upon a very synthetic and spectrally rich sounding matter. I tried to be like a biologist who, with great care and reverence, develops his green island, in my case a self-sufficient sound island. I developed it through various processes, a bit like a spectral music composer would work with the sound of an instrumental ensemble - changing the degrees of inharmonicity in timbre and working with the temporality of the sound object. Later I started to work with more conventional techniques to create contrasts, to shape the form and narrative of the piece.