EverSong Demo
Workshop by Emily Peasgood & Mark Hanslip (Emily: she/her. Mark: he/him)
Saturday from 1:50 PM - 2:50 PM in Workshop 0 (Drop-in)
Want to hear your voice in the past and future? Come and try Peasgood and Hanslip's vocal transfer models in real-time. This demo follows from Peasgood and Hanslips talk on creating EverSong (1pm, Stage C). EverSong is a sound installation where you can hear the lifespan of a person in a song, from 5-years-old at the start to 95-years-old at the end. It explores the fragility of life, its circularity, invites people to celebrate the moment we are in right now and questions our legacy as humans moving into an increasingly digital age. Since January 2024, Peasgood & Hanslip have worked with DDSP-SVC, a newly-developed process which builds on Google Magenta’s DDSP by combining it with a diffusion-based vocoder. They recorded vocal datasets with people aged 5-95 and trained models which can be mapped onto Emily’s voice enabling her to sound younger and older than she is. This technology is starting to be adopted by contemporary pop musicians, high-profile examples being web services such as Grimes’ Elf and Holly Herndon’s Holly+. EverSong represents a new application of this technology by making it possible to hear a voice age in real time. It will be experienced in tunnels and pathways, installed sustainably in nature, touring before finding a permanent home in an ancient site.
Attending this workshop will cost | Free |
Suitable age range | All ages |
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