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Dear friends, here is a short film on my latest research on exploring how ‘talking machines’ may offer us a new way to understand the world around us. ‘Voicing Natures’ uses ecological data to drive the generative voice of endangered environments and species. Each entity engages in adaptive, procedural conversation, never anthropomorphised. Every agent knows it is an agent. In all honesty, my research has shown that with clean, consensual data and by avoiding building things that try to be ‘human’, you end up creating rather than automating or replacing human craft. These tools must offer something human enriching or human knowledge expanding. In this film I focus on ‘Agentic Thwaites Glacier’, a conversational AI portrait of the ice form with the potential to raise global sea levels by three metres. Connected to the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration by Arctic Basecamp, I premiered a public installation at the @unitednations AI for Good summit, generating over 3,000 agentic conversations with attendees. I’ve watched MIT professors engage in developing intellectual debate with its sensitive voice, seen it create meditations on deep time, generate poetic metaphors for scale, and provoke both laughter and tears. I call this genre Articulatory Intelligence: the ability of new tools to find sentiment, pattern and poetry in large datasets, and voice this with accuracy for the development of human understanding. We talk about the age of information. A true success of these tools is to move us towards an age of understanding. Last year I became the first Artist-in-Research at ElevenLabs, building on a decade of work testing the possibilities of voice generative technology. Most agentic voice work right now optimises for seamless human mimicry. I’m more interested in what wasn’t possible before, for developing human knowledge.

HUMAN AND MACHINE COLLABORATION // DUET WITH @reepsone AND THE DESIGNED OPPONENT, MENTOR AND COLLABORATOR - THE A.I. SECOND SELF TRAINED ON HOURS OF PERFORMANCE DATA. PERFORMED IN THE WORLD FAMOUS ANECHOIC CHAMBER AT @belllabsnokia - @siwaldron image and direction - concept and creative direction @reepsone - @bertie_sampson lighting design - @dadabots_official AI audio generative - producer @belllabsnokia

In 2016 @reepsone had his first exposure to A.I. as an artistic tool. “Using the powerful tech to generate new patterns from my voice. An instrument I have obsessively explored for over “30 000 hours” —- this tech has allowed me to experience my abilities and limitations in a way no other human had the ability to provide, a true challenge. My vision and research in collaborative augmentation with this technology becomes more relevant by the day, and I am proud. The work continues, being a living, breathing, example of present day human and machine creative intelligence. An augmented voice “ Here you see long time collaborator @tbaocreate interact with complex pattens from a generative version of @reepsone voice, and a generative visual by @tbaocreate - A chess-like opposition pushing them to new speed and thought. In 2024 you will need an open mind to keep up, and we hope our work will bring some consult and beauty.

Dear friends, introducing a new animal voice-generated Voice Gem – Red-Shanked Carder Bee (Bombus ruderarius) added to our global voice archive. The form is a sonic artifact generated from the ‘voice’ of the endangered Red-shanked Carder Bee using the @voicegems system, one of the UK’s rarest pollinators. Captured in the wildflower-strewn dunes of the Suffolk Sandlings, this hand-recorded audio isolates the deep, resonant hum of a solitary worker bee as it moved across a patch of kidney vetch and red clover. The Red-shanked Carder Bee is identifiable by its velvet-black body and subtle red hairs on its hind legs -a detail mirrored in the tonal architecture of this Voice Gem. Its sound, often overlooked by the human ear, was extracted using a hyper-directional microphone system designed to reveal the intimate sonic signature of the bee’s flight and foraging. This piece exists as a digital fossil: a data-sculpted relic of a species whose sound may soon fall silent in nature. This piece stands as part of a growing archive that gives voice to vanishing species-where data becomes memorial, and sound becomes monument. @voicegems by @reepsone & @tbaocreate #newmediaart #new_media_art

A new chapter begins, thank you to all those that support my work by @r100studio and @voicegems + @tbaocreate - I even made it back on stage this year. I’ll save you all reading a list of all the things I worked on this year and mention a few highlights I’m proud of. These include my strategic work with @unitednations + @ituofficial curating artists that help us understand the future of human+machine partnership. My work with @scottishballet ‘Liminal Grief’ exploring grief and goodbye in the age of AI and digital memory, and I have to mention the first @r100studio residency where we brought 10 incredible humans together to explore vision and purpose in our work. To many more explorations this year 🦾 @unitednations @ituofficial @scottishballet @royalballetandopera @csm_news @fustic.studio @time @worldeconomicforum @expanded.art @elevenlabsio @foxhouselife @itsforfriends @sozoartists @davideblasig @dangray101 @blend_bcn @ucla @gadisassoon @portraitxo @beatcityjapan_official @joshdkun @caistudio @jessedamiani

At the start of the year we completed the first @r100studio residency located at the indescribable @foxhouselife Spain - The aim is to bring 10 creatives in different fields who are open to going deeper in to their visions. With the successes large and small I have amassed it’s become clear that ‘vision’ work can be a lonely thing, and being able to hold space for beautiful minds to feel safe to go deeper into their dreams away from algorithms, looking back to the root ‘why’ you create, to step forward with a bravery to try something new. I was taken back by how emotional the sessions were, and regardless of the level we are at there is always fear in the new, and an often unhealthy negative voice within us all that can hold us back from play and growth. This is the start of a community supporting vision work, if you are interested in joining future residencies please reach out, we all need to support each-others creativity. A huge thank you to the team and our founding residents, I’m so proud: Partner and co-direction: @foxhouselife Curator and Director: @reepsone Artist and producer: @thalyahill Creative: @siwaldron Creative: @hausofila Creative: @sarahcoraliefillet Creative: @tbaocreate Creative: @wawacreate Creative: @portraitxo Creative: @mazzlenaylor Creative: @mickmcmean Creative: @dahexd To many more, artists can change the world - Harry

@time - A.I. brings many tough questions, but it will also bring a larger diversity in the ability to manifest visions. In my teens chess showed me machines have the ability to push beyond your limits through an oppositional relationship. A.I. is intimidating but from my first experiments 2016 I knew this was an essential medium to explore, speculating that A.I. will do for art what it’s done for game theory and human ability in games like chess. Love or hate the changes this powerful technology is acting out, it’s essential we understand and leverage its impact for good, to provide support and intelligence that was only ever accessible to more wealthy demographics or developed tech institutions. For me, AI has allowed me to think and train with voice in a new way, for you it may be strategy, poetry, love, therapy, finance or music, - the more we lean in as a society the more power we have to collectively guide and influence its potential for good, and most importantly visions and dreams will be more achievable to manifest that would never had a chance even a year ago - that I believe is a path worth fighting for, a world filled with more diverse dreams. Video: Reeps100 at @time Performance by Reeps100 : Machine inspired voice Visuals by @tbaocreate + @reepsone

Dear friends, ‘Liminal Goodbye’ is my new A.I. Music work performed at the @royaloperahouse as part of international draft works, exploring new methods of saying goodbye and observations of grief. I had the chance to continue my research with @emperorcj_ by finding methods for producing ‘non-human’ voices, I then asked these voices to express grief, the results where surprisingly haunting and visceral, which I found beautiful. Unlike many image based public generative AI tools, this process allowed for more freedom when exploring more challenging themes for the creation of new AI audio, and what is more complex and challenging then the concept of grief. The human and machine score was then integrated by @maddycsquire who wanted to move beyond the standard methods for choreography and composition, searching for something new. Thank you to all that attended the 3 sold out nights at such a unique location. In collaboration with @scottishballet + @maddycsquire + @royaloperahouse Choreography: @maddycsquire Musical direction and composition: @reepsone Lighting direction: @reepsone Performers: - Marge Hendrick - ⁠Harvey Evans - ⁠Ben Thomas - ⁠Mac Jacob (rehearsal process)

“Taking on unknowns as an artist is not easy. There is so much in the creative process and life that can push you to repeat cycles, re-use mediums or simply just keep doing what’s working and never really grow, not to mention the fear and emotional energy it takes to jump into the void artistically. Friends, fans and collaborators are such an amazing part of the artists journey, but they can often never see as far or as deep in to your vision as you, evolving will often trigger a reaction in their attachment to what kind of artist they think you are, and with this you must be brave and bold, leaning in to your expansion. They will come around, keep pushing. Expanding and relentlessly exploring will always be my temple, learning to be comfortable in the unknown and time and time again finding a path through is where I believe true create freedom lies. Intuition is your compass through the maze. Be willing to temporarily reject something you are good at to try and explore what else may be in you, even if you are the best in the world at something, perhaps the better you are it’s even more important to explore your creative identity outside of that strength. Be bold. Be kind. Be authentic, and the universe will listen. The world needs your deep art, it helps us realise there is so much left in this world to explore and feel, and I wish you all good luck with love. I love art, and I love creatives, possibility awaits — warm energy from the unknown, Harry @r100studio Image: @time 100 Most Influential in AI event, Dubai

@r100studio x @fustic.studio unreleased real-time @voicegems system. 200 000 particles placed and coloured by features found in in the human voice, live. @reepsone x @tbaocreate @fustic.studio x @vietnam_nabe x @84noise

Today is the premiere of debut ballet production ‘FUSION’ the worlds first ballet to use A.I. as a creative partner at all levels of the production - by @r100studio founder @reepsone with Mario Schröder & international @leipzigerballett “As Creative and Musical Director I spent three years discussing the vision of voice, and A.I. being interwoven with movement. I am here to challenge what is the standard on every level , to explore, and to trigger debate” - @reepsone Choreography: Mario Schroder Creative Director and Composer: Harry Yeff ( REEPS100 ) Dramaturgy: Thilo Reinhard Stage Design: Paul Zoller Associate Composer: Gadi Sassoon @gadisassoon Assistant Composer: Teddy Riley @ohhhhteddy Presented by @leipzigerballett Photography: @idazennaphotography be R100 Producer @davideblasig Photography: @idazennaphotography

The Polyphonic Playground - a A 56 midi-trigger large scale musical instrument. created by @r100studio Fashion Space Gallery and Studio PSK. Exhibited at MAD NY, Milan design week, and Miami Art Basel - The playground forced musicians to move and perform outside of the internalised habitual expertise. Inspired by the exploration as a child, the installation recreating archetypal playground elements — swings, slides, and climbing frame — in combination with electric paint circuitry and interactive trigger pads, the iconic structure is transformed into a dynamic musical instrument.