Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) program presents two collaborations that humanize technology by fusing it with art.
Reeps One, world leading beat-boxer and vocal experimentalist, will premiere a live version of his 'Second Self’ which demonstrates the creative potential of AI.
The International Contemporary Ensemble and E.A.T. artist-in-residence Lainie Fefferman will play the music of award winning Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir. The music will be augmented by technology developed by E.A.T., transforming audience cell phones into loud speakers.
Date:
5/19/2019
4:00pm
Location:
Times Square Pedestrian Plaza
Between Broadway and 7th Avenue, from West 42nd to West 47th Streets
About Nokia Bell Labs
A global collective of the world’s brightest minds, working to create the network of the future. Nokia Bell Labs is an industrial research and scientific development company owned by Finnish company Nokia. Its headquarters are located in Murray Hill, New Jersey, with laboratories located around the world. Bell Labs has its origins in the complex past of the Bell System. Researchers working at Bell Labs are credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the charge-coupled device, information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages C, C++, and S. Nine Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories.
Performances and commissioning activities during the 2019-20 concert season are made possible by the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, A.N. and Pearl G. Barnett Family Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc., Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Amphion Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Pacific Harmony Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, mediaThe foundation inc., The Casement Fund, BMI Foundation, as well as public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council for the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency. The International Contemporary Ensemble is the Ensemble in Residence of the Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for ICE.