Luca Perciballi and Marco Fiorini (IRCAM, REACH) performed on October 10, 2025 at ParmaFrontiere, one of the most prominent Jazz Festivals in Italy. The duo premiered their new project « Hauntology Mirror », a unique dialogue between electric guitar and Somax2. The project explores embodiment, interaction, real-time co-creation and the notion of echos and ghosts, taken from […]
On October 8th 2025 the students of the Somax2 workshop on Music Improvisation with Co-Creative Agents at Conservatorio Puccini in La Spezia (Italy) performed the final restitution concert. Five different pieces using Somax2 were showcased by these young musicians, guided by Alberto Gatti (responsible of the Electronic Music department in the Conservatorio) and Marco Fiorini […]
Gérard Assayag (ERC REACH) with Elaine Chew (ERC COSMOS project) and percussionist Thierry Miroglio have toured China’s main Music Conservatories from Beijing to Hangzhou to the Shangai Power Station of Art Museum to explain the research behind the project REACH and COSMOS, train the students to use the software tools (Somax2), and give several concerts […]
Anaïs del Sordo and Marco Fiorini (IRCAM, REACH) recently toured Japan for a series of workshops and concerts, thanks to an invite from the JFLI (Japanese-French Lab of Informatics), the University of Tokyo and Tokyo Geidai University of the Arts. On September 8, Marco Fiorini gave a presentation at Harada-Kurose-Mukuta Lab in the Research Center […]
Article by Alberto Gatti and Marco Fiorini (equal contribution) has been accepted for the Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2025) in Graz, Austria. Read the full paper Video demo Abstract: This paper presents a novel methodology for creating dynamic auditory landscapes in co-creative musical interaction through the Somax2 system, introducing a new approach to spatial […]
Article by Joséphine Calandra, Marco Fiorini and Gérard Assayag has been accepted for the Journées de l’Informatique Musicale (JIM2025) in Lyon, France. Read the article Abstract: Somax2 is a multi-agent improvisation software based on a probabilistic recombination model of an audio or MIDI corpus, annotated according to several musical dimensions, and sensitive to influences of the external […]
Article by Marco Fiorini*, Nicolas Brochec*, Joakim Borg and Riccardo Pasini (* equal contribution) has been accepted for the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) Conference in Canberra, Australia. Read the full paper Video demo Abstract: This paper presents two key contributions to the real-time classi- fication of Instrumental Playing Techniques (IPTs) in the context […]
Article by Nicolas Brochec*, Marco Fiorini*, Mikhail Malt and Gérard Assayag (* equal contribution) has been accepted for the 50th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Boston, United States. Read the full paper Video demo Abstract: This paper presents a significant advancement in the co- creative capabilities of Somax2 through the integration of real-time recognition […]
ICMC 2025 has seen an impressive series of Reach related events, such as the opening concert where the Reach Team performed with Somax2, SoVo (Somax2 /+ George Lewis’ Voyager) along legendary musicians Roscoe Mitchell, Steve Lehman and George Lewis. The next day there was an evening concert entirely devoted to Somax2 (see program below), and […]
This version introduces Max 9 compatibility, a redesigned user interface, multi-label corpus building, and new label handling for filtering and real-time control. Max 9 Compatibility Somax2 now runs on Max 9.0.3 or later (earlier versions of Max 9 contained a bug in groove~ and buffer~ that caused issues with corpus loading). Updated User Interface Somax2’s interface has been redesigned and updated […]
