Archon

Roberto ALONSO TRILLO; Marek Poliks

Archon

Roberto ALONSO TRILLO^* (Artist), Marek Poliks (Artist)

^*Corresponding author for this work

Academy of Music

Research output: Non-textual form › Software

Abstract

Archon is an open-source interface designed for Demiurge, a generative performance ecosystem powered by machine learning (developed in collaboration with Marek Poliks). It can be used with any database of lossless audio stored on Google Drive.

Demiurge and Archon were built with the belief that the music of the future will take post-work as a point of departure, supplanting instruments with style transfer, sample library generation, and pattern proliferation, replacing the studio itself with readymade conformity-driven operations. Musical activities will consist of higher-level curatorial actions at the level of genre or mood or intensity. In liberating music from musicians, one both liberates its future from anthropocentric bias and accelerates its death-drive. Demiurge, Hydra, and Archon go nowhere near accomplishing this vision, but are nevertheless committed to its realization.

Archon is written in Python and Supercollider, and will be developed over the course of 2022. Its function is to mediate between human and database, a neglected instrumentality. Unlike existing work in concatenative synthesis, Archon is both realtime (GPU accelerated) and behaviorally adaptive to audio signal.

Original language	English
Media of output	Other
Publication status	Published - Dec 2021

Scopus Subject Areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

https://github.com/robertoalonsotrillo/archonLicence: GNU GPL

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