Deepscape: Transversal

Deepscape: Transversal is a radiophonic computational artwork consisting of a planetary soundscape live-generated by one deep neural network.

Deepscape: Transversal is a stereophonic soundscape continuously generated by one deep neural network, trained on 16 hours of soundscapes collected from 27 locations around the world in late April 2022. The soundscapes computed by the deep neural network compress and normalize the biophonies, geophonies and anthropophonies of the planet. They echo the terraforming of AI, whose computational infrastructures intensively exploit socio-material resources over the globe, and whose media flows generated throughout the Internet divert our attention from the planet.

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Year
2022

Credits
The project was developed with Axel Chemla–Romeu-Santos, in collaboration with the ACIDS group of IRCAM, and the Locus Sonus Vitae group of ESAAIX, in the context of a postdoctoral fellowship program supervised by Emanuele Quinz at EUR ArTeC (Université Paris 8), in collaboration with the Reflective Interaction group of EnsadLab.

Events
Performance @ Cirque Électrique, Paris, Fr (November 2022)
Talk @ ESAAIX / Acoustic Commons Event, Aix-en-Provence, Fr (October 2022)

Publication
Paper at ISEA 2023

Link to Deepscape: Transversal live streaming
.
.
Link to Deepscape: Transversal on Locus Sonus Vitae Soundmap