Hidden City live @ Adelaide Festival 2008

[rdomain]

Great stuff. It's good to see truly original music being performed in SA.

[sonofnewton]

cool !!!!!!

tenor sax at its best

[esmusical]

Love the Cello

[noissez]

Great stuff as usual. Great flow you guys have here, which usually is not the case in such performances.

[littlescale]

hey, cheers. we played three sets, and this video is part of the third set. but we don't have any footage of the second set (which i thought was the best).

[LearningMusicAu]

Good stuff guys.

Whens the next gig?

[littlescale]

Hey, thanks. We are playing the second thursday of April at the de la Catessen.

[mopppish]

Sebastian-

I've got to ask: what exactly is involved in 'AI handling'?

[littlescale]

The artificial intelligence involved is based around game theory (specifically, the prisoner's dilemma). A number of AI agents either co-operate of defect in relation to what Derek is playing on saxophone. This net of AI agents in turn determines a) one or more samples that are to be played back and b) the fragment of score that the string ensemble is to play.

[littlescale]

So, what Luke H (the guy with the long hair in the middle front) is doing, is controlling certain parameters of this process as well as mixing the sample playback volume (across eight channels) in real time on the mixing desk.

[littlescale]

I think i've got this almost right ;-)

Luke -- please add anything as you see fit.

[PrisonerD]

you're pretty spot on Seb. I was able to both add in to the process through controlling the responses of one of the 8 agents in the net and then I mixed the 8 channels of samples they generated live. 3 of the agents both triggered samples and beamed score fragments via wireless to the string players in real-time.

[littlescale]

thanks for clearing that up, Luke!

[TEMPHUiBIS]

-]. That sounded cool, what was you actually doing with the laptop and did u get my message .[-

[littlescale]

on the laptop i was manipulating and playing back only samples and snippets of us playing at a previous concert.

i got your message, i will reply soon (i am feeling totally unwell the last few says).

[TEMPHUiBIS]

-]. whatever your unwell with, we'll work it out .[-