What can AI learn from the top percussionists of Les Percussions de Strasbourg and HIIIT? WAYS OF [], the new performance by the exciting Dutch composer and audiovisual artist Zeno van den Broek, pairs six flesh-and-blood percussionists with five percussion robots, who respond to the music through AI-based interactions and visualizations. An exploration of the ever-changing relationship between people, machines and music.
PAY ATTENTION: This performance contains flashing lights that can be challenging for people with epilepsy.
Zeno van den Broek is known for his multidisciplinary, always highly aesthetic, explorations of the mechanical and mathematical. His performances and albums are overwhelming experiences that are both disturbing and strangely calming. Van den Broek has already appeared on stage at Gaudeamus Festival a number of times. In 2018, we released his work Ob-Literate, which he wrote together with Gagi Petrovic, on LP on the Unsounds label.