IKLECTIK presents,
WALSHE: THE TEXT SCORE DATASET
Tuesday 13 September 2022 | 7:30pm [doors] – 11pm
Our outdoor Kiosk is open from 6pm
Tickets: £7.50 Standard / £5.50 Concession https://buytickets.at/iklectik/727631
Join us for the UK premiere of an eclectic exploration of AI-generated music from Jennifer Walshe’s new anthology: ‘The Text Score Dataset 1.0’
Since 2017 Jennifer Walshe has been engaged in a quixotic enterprise, the creation of a massive – one might say definitive – dataset of text scores. Walshe’s Text Score Dataset 1.0 now comprises over 3,000 text scores, running to almost half a million words, ranging from Fluxus event scores to compositions written in the last year.
Walshe created the Text Score Dataset 1.0 in order to be able to use it as training material for Machine Learning algorithms, so that new generations of text scores could be created. Commissioned by PRiSM Centre at the Royal Northern College of Music.
The night will also include brand new text scores created by the audience using AI text generators. This will be a relaxed performance.
Performers include Megan Steinberg (turntable), James McIlwrath (viola/objects), James Creed (guitar), Peter Nagle (cello), and more friends!
Jennifer Walshe
“The most original compositional voice to emerge from Ireland in the past 20 years” (The Irish Times) and “Wild girl of Darmstadt” (Frankfurter Rundschau), composer and performer Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her music has been commissioned, broadcast and performed all over the world. She has been the recipient of fellowships and prizes from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm, the Internationales Musikinstitut, Darmstadt and Akademie Schloss Solitude among others.
milker.org
jenniferwalshe.bandcamp.com
Megan Steinberg
Megan Steinberg is an experimental composer and abstract turntablist. She works with found sound, chance procedures, graphic & text scores, quietness and microtonality. Her work looks at putting accessibility at the start of creative process. Megan is studying a PhD at Royal Northern College of Music, where she has been appointed the Lucy Hale Doctoral Composer in Association with Drake Music. Her music has been performed most recently at Kings Place, Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam, Arts by the Sea Festival in Bournemouth and IKLECTIK. Her music has also been broadcast on Resonance FM and BBC Radio 3. In 2016 Megan was awarded the F I Williams Prize for Composition for her piece The Dying Sakura Tree, performed by Distractfold.
megansteinberg.com
James McIlwrath
i’m an experimental composer-performer. i live in stirchley, in birmingham. i am a phd student working with experimental theatre company stan’s cafe. i am irish. i studied music at the university of york and i studied experimental performance at the royal birmingham conservatoire. i am the director of a m o k: an experimental music and performance platform based in york. i was part of sound and music’s 2019 cohort of composer-curators. i do things. i make things. i do the things i make. i make the things i do. i do things that other people make. i make things for other people to do. i have made music for people to sing on their bikes, music for people in boxes after a dream about boxes and an opera about a tin can. i have entered a void to hear tiny sound, improvised on a moving bridge, made a radio play about death, performed with fellow composer-performer neil luck live onstage at the bbc proms and i won nonclassical’s 2020 battle of the bands.
www.jamesmcilwrath.com
James Creed
I am a composer and guitarist working with experimental notations and simple materials. My practice owes a lot to community music, informed both by the prior practices and writings of others and by my own work in supporting community music education projects. Following this, most of my music is intended to have minimal assumptions of labour or training, presenting familiar materials in a way that could be assembled with little rehearsal, outlining a site of play as much as any communication of a “piece”.
https://jamescreedmusic.wixsite.com/website
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