Electroacoustic music and sound art - DEGEM annual conference
Methods from research into artificial intelligence and machine learning are increasingly finding their way into all areas of music - be it generative processes for creating sound or notation, audio-related analysis methods or suggestion algorithms on music platforms. For artistic processes, this seems stimulating and synergistic on the one hand, but threatening on the other, as these methods appear to be taking over fundamental processes in music creation. But what can the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning actually achieve in music-related work? What is technically possible? And how do artists deal with this in their current practice? These questions are the focus of the annual conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektroakustische Musik e.V. (DEGEM), which places the perspective of practice at the centre.

• SA / 09 / DEC / 23
  1 pm / MHL / Chamber Music Hall
  Symposium: Artistic and Artificial? - Current perspectives on artificial intelligence and music
  Lectures by Robert Lieck, Claudia Robles, Luc Döbereiner and Artemi Maria Gioti with insights into perspectives located at the interface of composition, sound art and computer science / keynote by Esmeralda Conde Ruiz (2022 Resident Artist at the "Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden" on the topic of artificial intelligence) / afterwards, all attendees are invited to exchange ideas and engage in discussion with each other in a fishbowl format. Participation is free of charge. Organisation: Prof. Nicola L. Hein and Miriam Akkermann on behalf of the DEGEM Executive Board
  
  
• SA / 09 / DEC / 23
  8 pm / MHL / Great Hall
  DEGEM-Concert
  Annual concert with award ceremony of the German Society for Electroacoustic Music (DEGEM) with Marko Kassl (accordion), Sarah Proske (organ), Ephraim Wegner (live video), Thomas Wenk (cassette recorder) as well as Julia Cloot, Sascha Lemke and Christoph Ogiermann (concert jury), organised by the DEGEM board. Admission free.
  
  Programme:
  
  > Presentation of the Thomas-Seelig-Fixed-Media-Music-Award
  > Natasha Barrett Impossible Moments from Venice 3: The Other Side of the Lagoon (2023), 8/16ch fixed media
  > Greeting
  > James Anderson: Ιζηματογενής [Izematogenes], 8ch fixed media,
  > Youngjae Cho: mirrored: ceilings, floors, walls, 3D audio
  > Rainer Bürck: In Zungen for accordion and live electronics (2019)
  > Daniel Bisig, Thomas Wenk, Ephraim Wegner: Deep dreams in the garden of melted memory, audience with smartphones, cassette recorder, video projection
  
  Break
  
  > Tobias Hagedorn: Weitergehen for organ and electronics (2019)
  > Leon Focker: los tin the echo, 8ch fixed media
  > Marc Behrens: The Unfant Terrible, 4ch fixed media
  > Malte Giesen: Apeirotope Disruption, 16ch fixed media (2021)

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektroakustische Musik e.V. (DEGEM) promotes electroacoustic music and sound art on a national and international level. This purpose is served by the organisation of specialist conferences, courses and concerts, the international exchange of information and the release of publications and recordings. From 2005 to 2019, the DEGEM organised the "DEGEM Webradio@ZKM" in collaboration with the Institute for Music and Acoustics at the Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM), which presented electroacoustic art in all its forms. Since October 2011, all DEGEM publications have been published under the EDITION DEGEM label, which DEGEM founded in collaboration with Till Kniola ("aufabwegen", Cologne). In the EDITION DEGEM online shop you will find not only current productions but also earlier DEGEM publications such as CDs, DVDs and CD-ROMs. Further information can be found at www.degem.de.