Festival

Presentation of results of the Special Program

Digital Dialogues

coached by Davide Gagliardi

 

 

With participants of the impuls Academy 2025

Tom Bañados Russell | Omer Eilam | Jieun Lee | Zouning Liao | Emanuele Savagnone composition, electronics

In today's digital landscape, the ability to share data seamlessly across devices opens new horizons for creative expression. Digital sound, at its core, is data: waveforms encoded and manipulated within digital environments. This fundamental understanding invites artists to explore the intrinsic relationship between sound and data, blurring the lines between musical composition and digital information processing.

Musicians can interpret the interconnected nature of networked data as a metaphor for building relationships between sound, gesture and technology, facilitating reciprocal interaction between the performer and a digital instrument. Whether through real-time sound analysis exchange between performer and electronic instruments, interactive performance environments driven by networked objects (sensors, lights, video), or algorithmic improvisation, participants were invited to work on pieces that foster dynamic and responsive interactions between human expression and digital systems. This paradigm offered insight into creating new musical relationships, where digital and acoustic elements coexist and influence each other, akin to an expression of augmented reality where digital instruments maybe be driven by real-time data inputs and partially autonomous in decision-making.