Closing DTzM

with Esmeralda Conde Ruiz

DTzM Musik Performance Installation 2022/23

This live companion piece to 24/7’s subterranean installation draws upon the themes explored during Esmeralda Conde Ruiz’s residency at the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden in 2022. The event features a range of vocal performances, which react to the site-specific environment created within the Great Hall at HELLERAU.

Utilising this additional space within HELLERAU calls to question the public face of data storage, what do we know about our data and what is hidden from us? What can we see clearly and what exists in spaces not usually visible? This event continues a conversation, about what is private and what is public within our digital worlds. By presenting within the Great Hall Conde Ruiz continues her play upon the architecture of HELLERAU’s spaces and their acoustical differences. As the finale to 24/7, this live performance brings 24/7 above ground and attempts to make visible the hidden side of our human data storage.

Admission from 4:15 pm
From 17:15 the installation of the same name in the orchestra pit can be visited.

From April to October 2022 and from March to May 2023, the composer, conductor and artist Esmeralda Conde Ruiz (*1980/Spain, lives in London) will be a guest at the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden. Here she is working on an artistic research project on the topic of “Artificial Intelligence as a Factor and Consequence of Social and Cultural Change” together with the scholarship holders of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, scientists from TU Dresden (TUD) and other partners such as the Dresden University of Fine Arts, HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts and the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra.

During her stay at the TUD, she will deepen her research in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and polyphonic singing with the help of scientists from the departments of musicology and acoustics and language technology. In the acoustics rooms of the Institute of Acoustics and Speech Technology, for example, Conde Ruiz is investigating specific sounds, especially machine noises, which she recorded in the server rooms of the TUD. The sound of server farms forms a central starting point for her artistic research on AI, as these represent the technical infrastructure for artificial intelligence applications. Based on her experiences as a composer and conductor, she traces the following questions, among others, in her project:

“When composing, can we use artificial intelligence not only – as is often the case – as a tool, but rather as an instrument? How can a human being influence AI in this case? Can AI find or develop its own voice and thus an individual sound?”

First insights into Esmeralda Conde Ruiz’s exploration of the sound of AI will be offered by various public event formats starting in summer 2022: At the conference “Digital is better?! – Camp für Digitale Kultur” conference at the Komplexlabor Digitale Kultur at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, she was present with an experimental performance: the “Larynx Nights”. On 29 September 2022 – to mark the end of her residency – she will present a new work at a symposium at the SLUB – Saxon State and University Library together with her cooperation partners, including Prof. Carsten Nicolai, Dresden University of Fine Arts, Prof. Orit Halpern, Professorship for Digital Cultures, Jun. Prof. Dr. Miriam Akkermann, Junior Professorship for Empirical Musicology, Carsten Tiede, Centre for Information Services and High Performance Computing, Dept. Operative Processes and Systems (OPS), all TU Dresden, the state of their artistic research. 

Conductor: Gunter Berger

Performers:

Arturo den Hartog

E Ensemble: Allan Gardam, Madeleine Buckley,

Claudia Kramer

Bürgerchor am Kulti

Annika Pfotenhauer

Finja Hufnagel 

Elisa Heuer 

Pauline Golbs 

Gloria Boetius 

Yanzy Xue 

Quentin Müller 

Kim Maatz 
 
Choir manager: Nadia Kramplova
 
FSJ Kultur: Lukas Neubert
 
Volunteers TUD: Alina Jonasson, Sarah Merz
 
Volunteers HELLERAU: Johanna Bielagk, Helene Winter
 
Stage manager: Ben Henrichs
 
Sound engineer: Ilko Schädlich (6.5. TUD)
 
Lighting: n.n.
 
Bürgerchor am Kulti

André Richter

Alrun Ritter

Andrea Bölke

Andrea Janus

Andrea Jeschke

Andreas König

Angela Hornung

Anja Scorl

Anke Bittorf

Anke Hanewald

Anke Nicke

Anna Seidel

Annegret Fabian

Annekatrin Küpke

Annemarie Quandt

Annett Schulze

Annette Ebeling

Antje Glaner

Antje Hutschenreuter-Dießl

Aribert Schuffel

Barbara Fahrig

Barbara Rosa

Bärbel Reich

Beate Handschack

Beate Herrmann

Birgit Busch

Birgit Heroldt

Birgit Pauzenberger

Birte Reschke

Brigitte Lange

Brigitte Richter

Christiane Sieber

Christina Eberlein

Christina Meinel

Christine Preußle

Christo Breudle

Claudia Hohenwaldt

Claudia Porsche

Corinna Hullmann

Cornelia Goß

Cornelia Maul

Cornelia Thomaschewski

Daniel Remsperger

Dirk Pannhausen

Doris Jeschke

Edith Schneider

Elfriede Wellenberg

Elisabeth Gretzschel

Elisabeth Münch

Elisbeth Kneu

Elke Opitz

Elke Pfau

Ellen Rothea

Elsie Kaulfuß

Erika Geertz

Eveline Weber

Falk Elsner

Franka Schulze

Freia Hollan

Gabi Hauswold

Gabriele Gottlebe

Gabriele Helbig

Gabriele Schütze

Gisela Eschert

Gisela Hübner

Gisela Lentz

Gudrun Vollmer

Gundolf Schulz

Gunhild Franke

Hans-Peter Hornung

Heide Strelow

Heide-Marie Neubert

Heidrun Scheffler

Heike Herzog

Helga Zobel

Helgard Ihlefeld

Hildegard Küppen

Holger König

Ilona Kegel

Ina Bülow

Ina Eslner

Ina-Maria Kühnel

Ines Beyer-Westendorf

Ing-Brit Tampe

Inge Arnold

Inge Bittermann-Mutono

Ingo Müller

Ingrid Seibold

Ingrid Treder

Ingrid Wagner

Isolde Kästner

Jürgen Sparfeldt

Juliane Lupp

Jürgen Schidlowski

Karin Hoger

Karin Lemm

Karin Rentzsch

Karla Fügert

Katrin Thiele

Kerstin Schuh

Kim Tuyet Hong

Kirsten Lemnitz

Konstanze Hackel

Konstanze Herzog

Lu Ella Berndt

Manfred Rentzsch

Manuela Juhra

Margit Neugebauer

Maria Hesse

Maria Jegodtka

Marion Neugebauer

Marie Herrmann

Marion Franke

Marita Garten

Marita Gruber

Markus Hohenwaldt

Markus Lipsz

Marlies Feig

Martina Betanski

Martina Landes

Monika Ulbricht

Natalie Schulz

Natalja Rehberg

Nick Bergmann

Peter Liebing

Petra Bohn

Petra Hejzlar

Petra Richter

Petra Rode

Petra Skade

Philip Kraus

Ramona Pieschel

Regina Gorzua

Regina Hörnig

Regina Reer

Regina Scheffel

Regine Erler

Regine Niederhausen

Renate Mankowski

Rita Elbertzhagen

Rita Jaensch

Rita Zellmann

Rolf Weber

Romy Scholz

Rudolf Scholz-Janotte

Sabina Leubiceli

Sabine Hoäler-Schulz

Sabine Scolz-Janotte

Sabine Yousef

Siegrid Kretzschmar

Sigrid Möser

Silke Gräwert

Silke Thomas

Silke Weber

Silvana Scholze

Susann Bergmann

Susanne Moritz

Swantje Fraikin

Sybille Heßler

Sylvey Lommatzsch

Sylvia Braunschweig

Sylvia Clasen

Sylvie Grune

Tanja Lieske

Toni Hellwig

Ulrike Geißler

Ulrike Neubert

Ulrike Simon

Ulrike Stümpel

Ursel Palme

Ursula Büchner

Ursula Fabig

Ursula Kirst

Uta Fuchs

Uta Günther

Uta Liebers

Ute Bartelmann

Ute Hegyes

Ute Herrlich

Ute Sieber

Ute Ulbricht

Uwe Eschert

Uwe Liebe

Veronika Krebs

 

Annette Wolf

Kathrin Fischer-Osterloh

Gisela Aehlig

Christine Bode

Steffi Brückner

Madeleine Buckley

Antje Diessl

Franziska Epple

Elke Ernst

Peter Fehrs

Gisela Fehrs

Cornelia Fleischhauer

Barbara Sofie Frutig

Silvia Gladis

Regine Gorzna

Sylvie Gruner

Sabine Haller-Schulz

Corinna Hallmann

Karin Hoyer

Edith Huttelmaier

Bärbel Jüpner

Esther Kemper

Claudia Kramer

Andreas Kunzmann

Valeria Lück

Renate Moll

Ingrid Mürbe

Silke Naumann

Monika Oelschlegel

Marina Oppe

Isolde Peschel

Annett Pollack

Christine Preußler

Claudia Rimek-Isaack

Aribert Scheffel

Katharine Schultz

Irene Schuster

Renate Singer

Waltraud Steigert

Heiner Thomas

Elke Turke

Simone Urbank

Sigrid Wenzel

Annette Wolf

Andrea Zindler

Thanks to project partners: Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden, Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern, Chair of Digital Cultures and Societal Change, TUD; Jun.-Prof. Miriam Akkermann, Chair of Empirical Musicology, TUD; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ercan Altinsoy, Chair of Acoustics and Haptics, TUD; Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Dr Matthew McGinity

A project of:

Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden

Kustodie der TU Dresden