The Ghost of Autumn Winds

This performance features The Ghost of Autumn Winds (秋風の霊)—a roughly forty-minute dialogue between shakuhachi and electronics using an original generative AI system named simerent. The simerent system captures an instrument's phrases, performs pattern-matching, and responds with variations on previously captured phrases in order of similarity, difference, or both, all through an immersive sound system. Holding both similarity and difference in th...