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 […]
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 […]
On Monday 25 November, at 19:00 (GMT +1) Marco Fiorini will lead an Online Max Meetup for Notam, the Norwegian centre for technology, art and music. The session will present Somax2 and discuss Music Improvisation and Composition with Co-Creative Agents, showcasing concrete research and artistic outcomes of the REACH project to the online Max community. […]
Marco Fiorini has been invited to lead a workshop at Università di Pisa on 4 November 2024, showcasing REACH advancements in Music Improvisation with Co-Creative Agents. The workshop focused on Somax2, REACH co-creative environment for music improvisation, and saw a wide number of students from Università di Pisa interacting for the first time with it.A […]
By William Teixeira, Marco Fiorini, Mikhail Malt, Gérard Assayag Musica Hodie, 2024, 24, ⟨10.5216/mh.v24.78611⟩DOI : 10.5216/mh.v24.78611 Read full publication. Abstract: This article details the development of a computational patch designed for real-time processing in the composition of Chronos IIIc, originally written by Brazilian composer Roberto Victório for solo cello. In this version, the piece incorporates […]
From a facebook post by Marco Fiorini First time featured in the Computer Music Journal! 📚On this issue, the seminal article on Somax2 by Gérard Assayag, Laurent Bonnasse-Gahot and Joakim Borg is finally out, and I’m appearing as contributor to the tutorials and documentation! 🙏The journal gives also a nice overview of the Erc Reach […]
The seminal paper on Somax2 is available:Cocreative Interaction: Somax2 and the REACH Project. Computer Music Journal 2022; 46 (4): 7–25Gérard Assayag, Laurent Bonnasse-Gahot, Joakim Borghttps://direct.mit.edu/comj/issue/46/4 Read full paper Abstract: Somax2 is an artificial intelligence (AI)-based multiagent system for human–machine “coimprovisation” that generates stylistically coherent streams while continuously listening and adapting to musicians or other agents. The model […]
On April 15th 2024, Marco Fiorini (IRCAM, REACH) is holding a workshop on Music Improvisation and Composition with Co-Creative AI Agents at Tokyo Geidai University of the Arts (Japan). This workshop will present Somax2, and it will focus on its concepts, UI, control, learning, architectural aspects and musical scenarios. Concrete musical examples with Somax2 will […]
