See the world through a concert
SOUND ESCAPES
JUly 30th 8PM ET | FREE DIGITAL concert
JUly 31ST 1PM ET | post-concert chat
PROGRAM
Bird Brained – Jackson Welchner*
Robbie's Hobbies – Suzy Wilde*
Fade to Black – Dhaivat Jani*
i am a strange loop – Mac Rogers
The Night is Young – Mason Victoria*
Hot Bod – Sarah Thawer, arr. Mason Victoria
*Spectrum composer
ENSEMBLE
Sarah Thawer (drums)
Chris Pruden (piano, synths)
Caleb Klager (bass)
SPECTRUM IS
Managing Artistic Director Zoe Chronis Brown
Artistic Producer, Sound Escapes Mason Victoria
Artistic Producers Jackson Welchner
Suzy Wilde
Artistic Associate Dhaivat Jani
AUDIO / VISUAL TEAM
Lead Audio Artist Mason Victoria
Mixing Artists Pablo Del Pozo
Dhaivat Jani
Jackson Welchner
Studio Engineers Pablo Del Pozo
Mason Victoria
Lead Visual Artist Ryan Kelln
Videographers Ryan Kelln
Laura Soch
Video Editing Ryan Kelln
Mason Victoria
Zoe Chronis Brown
Graphic Design Juyeon Kang
ARTIST BIOS
Zoe is a Toronto-based arts manager and freelance flutist. As an avid supporter of the arts, Zoe aims to build and curate creative spaces for music to thrive in today’s landscape and beyond. She is currently completing her MBA and MA degrees from the Schulich School of Business at York University, specializing in Musicology and Arts, Media, & Entertainment Management.
Award-winning composer Mason Victoria primarily composes for humans, but has been known to occasionally write for robots. As a music technologist, Mason blends his unique jazz vocabulary with his appreciation for audio design and sound manipulation. In addition to his work at Spectrum and vast amount of original music, Mason focuses his creative energy scoring video games, short films and directing ensembles of various sizes.
Ryan Kelln is a Toronto-based programmer, designer, and artist. He has a background in art, tech, and video game development, but spends time designing and creating systems to enlighten and empower. Ryan is a strong advocate for open source software and the creative commons. Since 2015, Ryan has been focused on machine learning and artificial intelligence, and its implications and interactions with art and economics.
Jackson is an Artistic Producer at Spectrum Music. He is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and a composer who loves collaborating with artists from a wide variety of musical backgrounds. Outside of Spectrum, he's kept busy producing his own solo music, singing / arranging for Planting Pearl, and playing keys in Other Families. Jackson also teaches music theory, voice, piano, guitar, and ukulele remotely over zoom.
Originally from Ahmedabad, India, Dhaivat is a drummer, tabla player and composer based in Toronto. He has been expanding and honing his skills as a performing musician and composer in the realm of contemporary jazz with some Indian classical, electronic, and world music influences. Currently pursuing his Bachelor of Music at Humber College, Dhaivat leads two of his own bands - “Dhaivat Jani PLUS” and “Electrio.”
Fascinated by the power of storytelling in music, Toronto composer Suzy Wilde is drawn to the narrative aspects of folk, rock and musical theatre. Suzy works as a composer and arranger for many groups in the city including Regent Park School of Music, Well Seasoned Productions and The award-winning Wexford Gleeks. She is currently working as musical director for the Together At Last Festival in Charlottetown, PEI. photo credits- Jen Squires
Spectrum NVCR 2020 Winner Mac Rogers is a trumpeter, composer, and educator based in Toronto. Alternating from quiet, contemplative themes to crescendos of chaos, his music draws on themes of reflection, loss and self-actualization. In March, he released his debut EP, Where Stems Meet Noise, and launched a community-minded music collective, siblinghumanbuddypal with his dear friend and collaborator, Devon Savas (Eulogy Eulogy).
Sarah Thawer is a JUNO-Award nominated drummer and recording artists based in Toronto. Sarah has worked with various artists including George Watsky, Jon Batiste, Sheila E., AR Rahman, Steve Weingart, Mark Lettiere, Charlotte Day Wilson, and Tegan and Sara to name a few. Known as a versatile musician, she performs a wide range of genres from jazz and fusion, to Indian, funk, r&b, hip hop, and latin.
Born in Edmonton, Chris is a pianist and keyboardist living in Toronto. His various mentors include Jacob Sacks, David Braid, Greg Oh, and Geoff Young. With influences ranging from jazz, contemporary classical, folk, rock, and electronic music, Chris has performed with many different groups across North America, China, and Europe. He is a current member of the JUNO nominated Tara Kannangara group among others.
Caleb is an up-and-coming bass player and composer, known for his lyrical style of playing and his sensitivity as an improviser. He is active in the Toronto and Calgary music scenes as a sideman and leader for multiple projects spanning across various genres, including the The Harry Bartlett Trio, Moodset, The Winona Collective, and more.
Born in Ecuador, Pablo has spent the last 7 years as a professional audio artist. His passion for audio and music started from his guitar and a love for grunge music. With a Bachelor degree in Digital Sound in Music Production from Ecuador, Pablo has also recently graduated from the Masters’ program in Music Technology and Digital Media from the University of Toronto.
VISUAL CREDITS
*for details, please visit www.ryankelln.com/project/sound-escapes
TOOLS kdenlive
Open source video editor
ffmpeg
Open source audio & video tool
slowmoVideo by Simon Eugster http://slowmovideo.granjow.net
CODE https://github.com/RKelln/vid2frame
based on:
https://github.com/forwchen/vid2frame
https://github.com/jinyu121/video2frame/blob/master/video2frame.py
https://github.com/rmccorm4/PyTorch-LMDB/blob/master/folder2lmdb.py
FADE TO BLACK
footage:
Rare Footage of 9/11 WTC Attack
Military videos by U.S. Military Cache https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHPZ0ue2chQ
Pollution Crime by INTERPOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIBEn5WsugE
Air Pollution HD Stock Video | Free stock footage | Free HD Videos - No Copyright | Channel PMI by CHANNEL PMI - FREE STOCK VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq4ivmk9llM
Water Pollution HD Stock Video | Free stock footage | Free HD Videos - No Copyright | Channel PMI by CHANNEL PMI - FREE STOCK VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8wQ6y_AQGE
Fire Behaviour: Observation & Training by CFA (Country Fire Authority) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1iZPR6aIBc
Survival Under Atomic Attack
by U.S. Office of Civil Defense https://archive.org/details/Survival1951
Wheels of Progress by Zenith Cinema Services, Inc. https://archive.org/details/Wheelsof1950
Black Lives Matters - George Floyd protests videos by Ram Biole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4HKXLks-VA
Protest HD Stock Video | Free stock footage | Free HD Videos - No Copyright | Channel PMI by CHANNEL PMI - FREE STOCK VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiaMhAWHkzg
PROTEST: Youth Global Warming Strike, London 2019 Londisland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8o_YP0YKLc
Full Earth Video - April 1st 2018 by Blueturn Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZOOL3kYU9k
Frogger Highway by Beachfront B-Roll http://www.beachfrontbroll.com/2012/01/1-clip-needs-frog.html
Newyork Night View Free Footage Clip
by Stock Heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iasQGbmGYg
THE NIGHT IS YOUNG
footage:
Perseids Meteor Shower Moon Close Up
by Beachfront B-Roll http://www.beachfrontbroll.com/ Starry Sky
Timelapse - Creative Commons by Free HD Videos Creative Commons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vQBfrOK5d0
Northern lights // Aurora Borealis // Norrsken Time-lapse by Richard Dobrichovsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5LupVNeMHA
Night Skies | Starry Night | Northern Lights | Relaxing Music by ariel dangani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_s5XJDAI0
Timelapse video of star gazing on a starry night by Dmitry Varennikov https://www.pexels.com/video/time-lapse-video-of-star-gazing-on-a-starry-night-5155396/
code:
Consistent Video Style Transfer via Relaxation and Regularization
by Wenjing Wang, Shuai Yang, Jizheng Xu, and Jiaying Liu https://github.com/daooshee/ReReVST-Code
StyleGAN 2 in PyTorch by Kim Seonghyeon https://github.com/rosinality/stylegan2-pytorch
Milky Way Glowing At Night
by Bilder David
Stars in Space
by Free Video Library - For Content Creators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yXWVS_bE_g
One night in Finnish Lapland with northern lights. by AV LAPPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuVq6Q7erVM
Algonquin Park Stars Timelapse
by Paul Yip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gwwgR7oNb4
Just Another Milky Way by Hypatia Alexandria https://www.flickr.com/photos/160078282@N02/48125377358
Optex by Hans Brouwer and Jim Kok https://github.com/JCBrouwer/OptimalTextures
Vidgear stabilize by Abhishek Thakur https://github.com/abhiTronix
maua-stylegan2 by Hans Brouwer https://github.com/JCBrouwer/maua-stylegan2
ROBBIE'S HOBBIES
footage:
Paintings by Robert Wilde
photographed by Suzy Wilde
Canvas texture https://unsplash.com/photos/xz485Eku8O4 by Annie Spratt on Unsplash
code:
Consistent Video Style Transfer via Relaxation and Regularization by Wenjing Wang, Shuai Yang, Jizheng Xu, and Jiaying Liu https://github.com/daooshee/ReReVST-Code
ConSinGAN by Tobias Hinz https://github.com/tohinz/ConSinGAN
DeOldify by Jason Antic https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify.git
timecraft by Amy Zhao, Guha Balakrishnan, Kathleen M. Lewis, Fredo Durand, John Guttag, Adrian V. Dalca
https://github.com/xamyzhao/timecraft
DeepLandscape: Adversarial Modeling of Landscape Videos
by E. Logacheva, R. Suvorov, O. Khomenko, A. Mashikhin, and V. Lempitsky https://github.com/saic-mdal/deep-landscape https://saic-mdal.github.io/deep-landscape/
pytorch-AdaIN by Naoto Inoue https://github.com/naoto0804/pytorch-AdaIN
Animating Landscape by Yuki Endo and Yoshihiro Kanamori and Shigeru Kuriyama https://github.com/endo-yuki-t/Animating-Landscape http://www.cgg.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~endo/projects/AnimatingLandscape/
i am a strange loop
Visual FX Shader Artist: Sol Sarretea
footage:
Cell through Microscope Free Footage Clip
by Stock Heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rww1olT3HA
Silver Lining Uplifting Clouds Epic Clouds Sunset Waves
close-up by Beachfront B-roll http://www.beachfrontbroll.com/
Conways_game_of_life_breeder_animation.gif
by George on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Conways_game_of_life_breeder_animation.gif
code:
Texture Generation with Neural Cellular Automata Copyright 2021 Google LLC https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1KMlVFi2zXhE0_PHCBXC07oblcJf9E13s
Self-Organising Textures Neural Cellular Automata Model of Pattern Formation
by Eyvind Niklasson, Alexander Mordvintsev, Ettore Randazzo, and Michael Levin https://distill.pub/selforg/2021/textures/
Internet Map 2005 by Matt Britt on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_map_1024.jpg
Raindrops in Super Slow Motion
by Alizer AKDENİZ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMvaMD3j6o4
physarum network_2.gif
by Sage Jenson
https://sagejenson.com/physarum
Various photos from friends and family of Mac Rogers
Aphantasia
by vadim epstein https://github.com/eps696/aphantasia
Droste effect
by Roy Wiggins
bu3nPattern by Sol Sarratea
https://github.com/bu3nAmigue/bu3npattern/tree/video-texture
BIRD BRAINED
footage:
Lake, sunset - birds flying to the camera - gopro (1080p)
by Free Footage For You - YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhgGDBMz3II
gull flying slow mo bird and sky
by galosstiftelsen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfA3UASzwS0
Pigeon plummage
by Roy Buri from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/videos/pigeons-bird-feather-plumage-39263/
Mandarin duck - Mandarijneend - Aix galericulata
by Watervogelbond
Happy hopping Barnacle goose juvenile
by Vesa Leinonen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thEOf3tH8rI
bird shit by caleb wood https://vimeo.com/58970291
code:
Boids in Godot with Acceleration Structure
by Stephen Young
https://github.com/kyrick/godot-boids-acceleration-structure
Watervogelbond - Sylvan Heights Vogel Park
by Watervogelbond
Meet the Locals: Ruru
by New Zealand Department of Conservation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZSda4jaBMY
Adult Geese and Baby Geese Crossing the Street (Shot w/Nikon Coolpix P1000)
by WildLife Videography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YhsooDk3sk
Bird Flying - Free Stock Creative Commons Video by Freestocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrRXDYUatf4 Birds On The Post by Beachfront B-Roll
http://www.beachfrontbroll.com/2011/09/something-little-more-scenic.html Various Seagull footage
by Beachfront B-Roll
Big Sleep by Phil Wang https://github.com/lucidrains/big-sleep
https://bitbucket.org/arlez80/godot-midi-player
by きのもと 結衣 (Yui Kinomoto)
HOT BOD
footage:
Rhododendron flower photographs
by Andrew Drown
drown.photography
code:
StyleGAN 2 in PyTorch
by Kim Seonghyeon https://github.com/rosinality/stylegan2-pytorch
maua-stylegan2
by Hans Brouwer https://github.com/JCBrouwer/maua-stylegan2
EVENT DETAILS
From wind that whistles through rustling leaves to the rhythmic cascade of rain on a spring day, nature’s soundscape has the power to transport us to a place of serenity and contemplation, and inspires us to live in the moment. In this concert, new music by the Spectrum composers and guests creates an immersive experience inspired by the wild and uninhibited beauty of nature.
Artificial intelligence spontaneously generates immersive soundscapes in performance alongside a live jazz trio featuring Sarah Thawer (drums), Caleb Klager (bass), and Chris Pruden (keys). You’ll be transported through abstract visuals, catered to each piece, leveraging the latest techniques in machine learning/AI. Watch the FREE concert stream through Twitch on Friday, July 30th at 8pm ET.
An hour-long post-concert chat will take place the following day on July 31st 1pm ET. Join us for this chat as Artistic Producer, Mason Victoria, and Visual Software Artist, Ryan Kelln, share experiences from behind-the-scenes production, including the makings and implementation of AI visuals, audio, and digital tools!
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