Special Call for Music – Somax2 at ICMC 2025 in BOSTON
ICMC BOSTON 2025, in collaboration with REACH (Raising Co-creativity in Cyber-Human Musicianship) European project at IRCAM, is announcing a Special Call for Music employing Somax2 for performances on a concert dedicated to works employing this environment and featuring a curated work for ensemble and Somax2.
To participate, see https://icmc2025.sites.northeastern.edu/call-for-submissions/
Check for Call for Music / Special Call for Music Somax2
Somax2 is a cognitively inspired multi-agent AI system based on a reactive machine-listening component, smart interaction policies and a corpus-based generative engine. It creates machine improvisation flows that continuously maintain some form of coherence with the musical content of the corpuses it's been trained on and the signals it receives from the musicians on stage. Somax2 agents can listen to each other as well, so as to create networks of virtual performers with both autonomy and attention to the ever-evolving musical context. The model accepts a variety of real-time controls acting on its generative process and interaction strategies, making it a digital instrument, or it can be easily scripted to fit in a compositional scheme. Somax2 is implemented in Max with a backend Python server, available as a user-friendly applicative patch or full-featured Max library for advanced Max programmers, online documentation and tutorials, video tutorials and demos and lots of videos documenting concerts and residences.
Gérard Assayag, Laurent Bonnasse-Gahot, Joakim Borg. Cocreative Interaction: Somax2 and the REACH Project. Computer Music Journal, 2022, 46 (4), pp.7-25. ⟨10.1162/comj_a_00662⟩
Somax2 Workshop
ICMC BOSTON 2025 will also offer a half-day workshop hosted by the REACH people, Gérard Assayag, Marco Fiorini and Mikhail Malt, for participants interested in coming together to learn about or enhance their knowledge of Somax2 through a series of interactive activities and discussions. Participants will engage in practical demonstrations and exercises on Somax2, with the goal of participating in a late-night Club Concert featuring improvisation and composed works employing Somax2 (date and time to be announced).
To participate, see https://icmc2025.sites.northeastern.edu/call-for-submissions/
Check for Call for Music / Special Call for Music Somax2 / Somax2 Workshop
Additional Useful Links
Somax2 info and support
Somax2 on YouTube, on FB
