Special Call for Music – Somax2 at ICMC 2025 in BOSTON
https://icmc2025.sites.northeastern.edu/
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.
https://icmc2025.sites.northeastern.edu/call-for-submissions/
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.
Somax2 Workshop
ICMC BOSTON 2025 will also offer a 3-hour workshop hosted by Gérard Assayag, head of REACH and team member Marco Fiorini, 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).
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Individuals interested in submitting works for consideration for the Somax2 Concert or in participating in the Somax2 Workshop and late-night Club Concert employing Somax2 should follow the SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: CALLS FOR MUSIC and select the appropriate checkboxes under Question 8. Preferred Concert Venue, and select Somax2 Concert and/or Somax2 Workshop and Club Concert.
Submissions should be made through the ICMC BOSTON 2025 Conference Management Toolkit (CMT).
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICMCBOSTON2025
Call for Music Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025
For any questions regarding the Call for Music Submissions, Special Call for Music – Somax2, or the Somax2 Workshop please contact the ICMC BOSTON 2025 Music Chair: John Mallia (john.mallia@necmusic.edu); or the Conference Chair, Anthony Paul De Ritis (a.deritis@northeastern.edu).
Additional Useful Links
Somax2
Somax2 on YouTube
