CREATIE

CREATIE researchers at the third edition of Sneak Peeks! Researchers present their current and upcoming projects to students, lecturers, and fellow researchers. This edition also featured a keynote presentation on the Research Catalogue by our chair @giusycarusopianist_researcher & coordinator @umutreldem . @furrkanak @sara.simio @alastair.w.matthews @_davidepaolillo @jondoeone @_davidepaolillo Visual: (c) Steven Holsbeek

The fifth edition of the Convergence seminar is in the books! Two and a half days of lectures, interdisciplinary performances, custom instruments, new technologies, feedback loops, musical robots, and hybrid environments. Huge thanks to everyone who made it possible! @umutreldem @giusycarusopianist_researcher @sara.simio @research_conservatoireantwerp @royalconservatoireantwerp

CONVERGENCE #5, Seminar on Co-creative Strategies in Interdisciplinary Artistic Practices → Opening concert: 22 March @theatergarage , Antwerp → Seminar: 23-24 March @royalconservatoireantwerp The fifth edition of the Convergence seminar, initiated by researchers Umut Eldem, Giusy Caruso, Sara Simionato, and Dago Sondervan, will focus on technological co-creation in interdisciplinary arts. Researchers, and artists will share their practices, experiences, and historical perspectives through lectures, performances, workshops, and installations. This year's themes explore how we anthropomorphize musical technology, the possibilities of embodied co-creative practices, and new frameworks for improvisation and real-time creation. With contributions by CREATIE researchers and students, Daniel Lythegoe, Davide Paolillo, Alexander Schubert, Cecilia De Lazzaro, Gianmarco Canato, Chris Kiefer, Elena Ajani, Massimiliano De Rose, Ferdinando Romano, Furkan Ak, Paolo Piaser, Hao-Teng Liu, Patricia Alessandrini, Maria Luigia Gioffre, Jonathan Impett, Juan Parra Cancino, and Rudolf Arnold. → Program & registration: via #linkinbio @uantwerpen @umutreldem @giusycarusopianist_researcher @sara.simio @_davidepaolillo @alexanderschubert_composer @ceciliadelazzaro @gianmarcocanato @elenaajani @furrkanak @piaserpaolo @za2095_h.t_lllllliu , @patricia.alessandrini @marialuigiagioffre @jfimpett #royalconservatoireantwerp#antwerpresearchinstituteforthearts #dagosondervan #interdisciplinaryart #artandresearchantwerp image: Convergence 2024

During the NextDoors week our researchers engaged the students of @royalconservatoireantwerp with workshops on music, technology, and theater: * @umutreldem , @sara.simio , and @giusycarusopianist_researcher introduced music students to co-creative practices with Somax2 from @ircam_paris * @furrkanak & @_davidepaolillo created a performance where sound, text, and embodied action meet in unstable terrain. * @nicolaskummert explored how sensor data of dancers' movements can be used to augment a musical performance Photos 1, 2, and 4 by @celiatortpujol @research_conservatoireantwerp

⚠️NEW DEADLINE: January 20th⚠️ 🌳Call for proposals - Convergence 2026🌳 The fifth edition of the Convergence seminar will focus on technological co-creation in interdisciplinary arts. Researchers, artists, and anyone currently engaging with this subject are invited to share their practices, experiences, and historical perspectives. Lectures, performances, workshops, and installations are welcome. The seminar will take place on March 23rd and 24th 2026 at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, Belgium. @research_conservatoireantwerp @royalconservatoireantwerp

A picture from our lecture/performance at the 'Decentralised Creativity and Agential Systems in Music' conference at @orpheusinstituut ! Our researchers Umut Eldem, Giusy Caruso, and Adilia Yip presented the research group's work on musical co-creativity with small-scale AI models. @research_conservatoireantwerp

Some pictures from our researchers’ contributions during the ARTICULATE Research Festival at @royalconservatoireantwerp ! 1 & 2- Future Shock Orchestra: Designing, creating, and playing new custom instruments @chiara_percivati 3- Meeting your Digital Shadow: Improvising music with live electronics as a creative partner @nicolaskummert 4- Recollections of the Azande Manza Xylophone: New music composed for and from the sounds of the Manza Xylophone @adiliayipyip 5- Mirroring Creative Lab: Refining the performance practice with the “mirroring method” @giusycarusopianist_researcher 6- Kenosphera: Radical interpretations of folk songs and ancient texts by the Quantum Choir @mc_slice @research_conservatoireantwerp

This week is the annual research festival of @royalconservatoireantwerp - ARTICULATE! Among many exciting concerts, lectures, and open classrooms are contributions by CREATIE researchers @nicolaskummert , @chiara_percivati , Davide Paolillo, @adiliayipyip , @giusycarusopianist_researcher , and @mc_slice . Check out the full program: ap-arts.be/index.php/evenement/articulate-2025-i-conservatoire

AI MUSICKING concert & solo performance Join us for the opening of the concert series and the closing concert during the Sixth Conference on AI Music Creativity from 10 till 12 September in Brussels, with Adilia Yip, Umut Eldem and Giusy Caruso of the AI MUSICKING project by research group CREATIE at @royalconservatoireantwerp . → Concert → 10 September, 16:30 → VUB Brussels, promotiezaal – building D → with Adilia Yip (Marimba), Giusy Caruso (piano) and Umut Eldem (AI & electronics) → Solo piano performance → 12 September, 20:00 → La Tricoterie, Brussels → with Giusy Caruso (piano) and MYO Armband → More info via 🔗 in bio @creatie.research @umutreldem @giusycarusopianist_researcher @adiliayip #researchconservatoireantwerp #artandresearchantwerp #royalconservatoireantwerp #researchinthearts #aimusicking

CREATIE is in New York! 🏙️ This week, our AI Musicking team (@umutreldem , @chiara_percivati , @adiliayipyip , @giusycarusopianist_researcher ) presented their research activites on AI and musical creativity during the 25th symposium of the ICTMD Study Group at the New York Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies, as well as the Movement Lab of the Barnard College. @royalconservatoireantwerp @research_conservatoireantwerp

Some photos from our Convergence seminar last week! This edition had fascinating presentations on technology and interdisciplinary art, and two fantastic concerts with a heavy-folk ensemble, a simultaneous performance between Antwerp and Istanbul, blobtracking technologies, and hybrid instruments. @royalconservatoireantwerp @research_conservatoireantwerp @screen.dive @umutreldem @giusycarusopianist_researcher

Tongues were twisted and souls were expanded in this three-day Quantum Choir session at the @royalconservatoireantwerp NextDoors week! Grateful for this group. We'll be presenting a short sample of fresh heavy-folk renditions of the 16th-century Carmelite vortex - on Monday, March 10 at the Gele Zaal, @desingelartscentre alongside other acts at the Convergence opening concert of @creatie.research @research_conservatoireantwerp 📷 Daria Miasoedova #choirlife #quantumchoir #innunswetrust #choralmusic #heavyfolk #artisticresearch #mysticalliterature #liturgy #castilianfolk