The 1st MUSAI Music and Artificial Intelligence Festival comes to Alternative Stage of the National Opera at SNFCC with the participation of fourteen Greek musicians and an international artist. For two days, on June 1 and 2, 2023, at 20.00, the public will have the opportunity to enjoy artists from different musical worlds interacting with tools of new technologies and artificial intelligence and sometimes integrating them in an improvisational way, in real time, and sometimes as compositional tools in music creation.

In his program MUSAI Festivalacoustic instruments meet electric sounds and live visuals, analog processors interact with sensors of movement and brain signals and the protolyan timbres of the vocal idioms of the Eastern Mediterranean become musical tiles in creations of microstructural (granular) composition.

The festival is held with the grant of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the scientific guidance of the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Learning Systems of the National Technical University of Athens and the LabMat of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as the collaboration of the Alternative Stage of the Hellenic Theater.

Her first day of the Festival (1/6) the versatile multi-instrumentalist and composer opens Telemachus Moussa with an ambient-experimental program. Then the experimental musicians will appear Spyros Polychronopoulos in electronics and Yannis Anastasakis on the guitar, accompanied by live visuals of the artist Natalia Manda and will continue the Dance with Invisible Partnersproject by scientist and musician Kostis Gardikis with dark pop tracks that have been co-created using artificial intelligence.

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