Berlin Music Tech Meetup #13: Intelligent Instruments For Musical Expression

The main topic for this gathering of the Berlin Music Tech Community will be Intelligent Instruments For Musical Expression.

Whether you are a musician, artist, music lover, innovator, founder or researcher, or just someone who wants to connect with the Berlin Music Tech community, this event is for you.

Watch presentations from people who have built musical instruments that take can open new horizons for musical expression.

Connect with like-minded individuals from diverse backgrounds, network, share ideas, and enjoy having fun and free beer, sponsored, by the great people from Algoriddim.

We are also grateful that the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises provided us with some funding to make this event possible.

Let‘s come together again at the legendary Riverside Studios Berlin on Tuesday, June 20 from 6.00 pm on.

There is no entrance fee. Like always.
RSVP IS CLOSED NOW!

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PRESENTATIONS
The presenters are going to share their journey, experiences, ideas, and projects for musical instruments they have built. Expect intelligent algorithms and neural networks embedded in musical instruments. But in a different way than this topic is discussed elsewhere ;)

1st Presenter: Gianfranco Ceccolini – Founder and CEO of MOD AUDIO
Gianfranco will speak about how the MOD audio processing platform is able to offer musicians a way to easily explore and create sounds for their instruments with the MOD smart standalone devices that offers digital versions of all kinds of signal processing devices, and how it can quickly absorb cutting-edge technologies like Neural Modeling and Convolution to improve the plugin offerings for musicians.

2nd Presenter: Julian Moreno Motta - AI Engineer at Birds on Mars
He will present the KI synthesizer, a project developed by the cross-media collective electronic ID in collaboration with Birds on Mars and Quandel Staudt Design. It enables users to patch multimedia signals into processors and machine learning models in a setting inspired by modular synthesizing. Julian will give a live demonstration and explain the technical and conceptual background of the project.

3rd Presenter: Achillefs Sourlas - Founder at axart software
He will present Autobeat/Untitled, a new MIDI plugin currently in its early stages of development. It is a beat generator that accepts a user prompt in the form of a 9-track 2-bar step sequencer and, in turn, generates 8-bar beats that are based on that prompt. The generator part uses openAI’s GPT-2 to recognize the music genre and generate the MIDI data.
The presentation will include a live demonstration of the project, as well as an introduction to the basic concepts and foundational elements behind it.

4th Presenter: Mark Moebius, Founder Nagual Sounds
Mark will present the latest developments of a sound engine that can translate any kind of data input into tonal musical structures in real-time. Opening up an entirely new way for music producers to compose interactive songs that react to sensor data input and a new way to engage with music for consumers.

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Wall Of Opportunities
We will also set up the "Wall Of Opportunities". A huge piece of paper, pinned to a wall on which you can leave a note if you are looking for a project partner or if you would like to offer your skills to others.

For Everyone
We aim to facilitate an event that is interesting to all of you. Whether you are interested in learning more about musical instruments or you consider actively engaging with new technology for musical expression or you just want to hang out with the music tech people in Berlin.

Drinks
Drinks are FREE. Thanks to our sponsor Algoriddim. Developer of the world’s first AI-based Digital Vinyl System (DVS) for mobile devices and has created the Neural Mix™ technology that allows DJs to play and remix singular elements from multiple tracks in real-time by isolating beats, instruments, and vocals of any song.

REGISTRATION
RSVP is mandatory. Space is limited.

We look forward to having you!