BLA BLAVATAR vs JAAP BLONK – an experimental collaboration between Jonathan Reus and the reknowned sound poet Jaap Blonk, exploring voice dataset making as a laborious, improvisational and absurdly banal […]
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iː ɡoʊ weɪ
iː ɡoʊ weɪ is my ongoing practice of hybrid voice work, since about 2021, where I try to use my voice, transformed through real-time “AI” systems, as a way of […]
D̴̼̥̉a̸͂͜ͅd̵͂͑ͅą̶̀͐s̵̯̈́e̶̜͔̍͝t̶̘͎̃s̶̫͙͂
D̴̼̥̉a̸͂͜ͅd̵͂͑ͅą̶̀͐s̵̯̈́e̶̜͔̍͝t̶̘͎̃s̶̫͙͂ is an ongoing interdisciplinary music project, and a response to the cultural and economic ecosystem of voice AI and voice data that is rapidly terraforming the meaning, value and […]
The Sentinel Self
The Sentinel Self is an interactive artwork that reflects on the entanglements between human immune systems and environments increasingly polluted by microplastics. Built within a video game engine, The Sentinel Self […]
Persona
Persona is a digital design project re-imagining the mask-making traditions of Venice. The work was a collaboration between Jonathan Reus and Italian designer Nicolo Merendino. This research was supported by […]
In Search of Good Ancestors / Ahnen in Arbeit
In Search of Good Ancestors / Ahnen in Arbeit is year-long experiment in computer generated radio, investigating the nature of datasets and machine learning algorithms as unstable memory. The 24-hour […]
Hybrid Folk Instruments (the Banjéla)
In the summer of 2019 I was graciously received by Andrew McPherson and the rest of the Augmented Instruments Lab at C4DM in London for a series of micro-residencies. I’ve […]
Celestial Fruit on Earthly Ground
Celestial Fruit on Earthly Ground is a hybrid physical/digital artistic research project that attempts to rethink the ethnomusicological archive from the ground up, rooted in the human traces and encounters […]
trans╫code
performance with Maya Fridman (cello/voice), live-coded scores and dialog and voice utterance classification system A collaboration with cellist/vocalist Maya Fridman, where algorithmic fragments are live coded to generate scores for […]
Algorithms that Matter
research residency at the Institute of Experimental Music (IEM) Graz Artistic-research residency into multiple themes, including conceptions of technologized time, understanding algorithmic models of consciousness (and forgetting), or digging into […]