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don't ever blink 06:56
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ghostlight (free) 09:21
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open your eyes sally 07:36
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misinformation 09:36
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metaphorical description of the world 09:28
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an idea was born 02:47
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travelling 03:36
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and then the world ended 02:47
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All That Is Seen and Unseen is an interdisciplinary, installation opera which investigates the multifarious effects of technology on our collective human consciousness. The work-in-progress confronts the dangerous erosion of truth and trust in our society, which is rapidly intensifying due to advancing A.I., computational propaganda, deepfakes, and other tools that have the potential to manipulate and obscure reality. Inspired by classical forms (generated and manipulated through A.I.) the piece conjures a phantasmagoria of processed video, music and text, imagining a quasi-supernatural invasion of malfunctioning and overreaching intelligent machines, where nothing is as it appears and no one is safe.

This new piece, a collaboration between human and non-human approaches to creativity, is in early development and will ultimately be realized as a multimedia live opera. Text and characters were created with a range of A.I. tools and then edited and combined with moving images by Shaun and Lauren. Zach generated the music using a neural network Max patch (trained on operas by Jean-Philippe Rameau) and added vocal melodies sung by soprano Amelia Watkins. The relationship between image, sound, technology and performance will be deepened as the work continues to build in complexity.

An installation version of this project is on view on Governors Island, summer 2023, as part of Harvestworks’ exhibition The Process.

All That Is Seen and Unseen is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governors and the New York State Legislature. Additional support comes from the Harvestworks Creative Residency Program and MacDowell.

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released July 21, 2023

zach layton, composer
amelia watkins, soprano

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Zach Layton is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, teacher, producer, and artist based in New York. Performed at the Guggenheim Museum, the Kitchen, and many other venues in New York and internationally.

Curator of ISSUE Project Room from 2008 - 2012, PS1 Warmup from 2005 - 2007, and founder of Darmstadt "Classics of The Avant-Garde," festival. 2015 Foundation for Contemporary Arts awardee. ... more

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