Elaine Chew had an inspirational two-week residency at Stochastic Labs in Berkeley to work on some new pacemaker and defibrillator heartbeat music. Her stay aligned with Patricia Alessandrini’s who was creating an opera featuring singing with soft robotics, and overlapped with Eduardo Miranda’s who was generating music using quantum computing.
Theme : Alternative Frontiers
There’s a lot of emphasis right now on “frontier models” with the race to AGI taking center stage, but certainly there are plenty of other frontiers worth exploring. Emergent, overlooked, abandoned, barely perceptible or even hidden-in-plain-sight…these are the bounds where we will be pushing this summer at Stochastic Labs. Program subgroups include: AI Creative Tools; The Future of Music and Sound; Computer Graphics, Animation, and Vfx; Tangible Imagination; Advanced Material Interfaces; and AI/ML Founders.
The Future of Music and Sound subgroup included music education startups by Mayank Sanganeria and by Adam Pamart, and AI music transcription startups Ivory (ivory-app.com, founder Marius Lumbroso) and Songscription (songscription.ai, co-founders Tim Beyer, CEO Andrew Carlin, Katie Baker, Alexander Alvarado-Barahona), each deeply passionate about bringing music to people.
Many thanks to Vero Bollow, Katie Waugh, and Mason Scharf who make running Stochastics Lab look easy. The location provided ample opportunities for outdoor walks and site visits.
