Notochord Arcs & Scrambled Signals

https://aimc2023.pubpub.org/pub/tii5jy7j

Notochord and Scramble are two probabilistic real-time generative MIDI models. Notochord is a ‘big data’ model which has eaten all the MIDI files on the internet, while Scramble is a ‘small data’ model which allows the user to hybridize individual MIDI files and sampled snippets. In this performance, two players will wrangle Notochord and Scramble, struggling to make sense from their infinite capacities for nonsense. Notochord will extrude big slabs of quasi-music which will be filtered and refined by Scramble before being re-harmonized by Notochord, ad nauseum. We human operators will push buttons and frantically twiddle knobs, sweat beading on our foreheads, as our wayward creations attempt to submerge us in a swimming pool of glistening General MIDI sounds.