Michaela Pnacekova
creator, producer, academic
Michaela Pnacekova is an interactive creator, producer and an academic. A Symphony of Noise VR is her first interactive project as a creative director and producer. She is also in development of a documentary detective game Pre-Crime Simulation, of which she is the author and producer of. She is also the German co-producer on the mixed-reality project Chomsky vs Chomsky by Sandra Rodriguez and THE Twilight World of Voodoo by Awan Tarun. For three years, she headed the Kloos & Co Medien documentary film production subsidiary in Leipzig. Between 2014 and 2019, she produced two short films and three feature length documentaries: Border Cut, Scars and Waterproof. She also worked on the Oscar® nominated documentary Last Men in Aleppo which premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2017. Before she started producing, she worked for film festivals and she wrote two theatre plays. From September 2019 she starts a PhD program in New Media at York University in Toronto.
Talk: Augment your music! Can AI and VR enrich music (spoiler: yes) and why should they?
Have you ever thought of algorithms and music without having Spotify's "personalized" playlists in mind? Come to this talk, meet the creators of “A symphony of noise“, an interactive Virtual Reality Music Installation, and learn, how VR, algorithms and profane noise(s) can morph into the 4D soundtrack of your life. You will learn, which major implications tech like VR and algorithms have on the creative process of music making.
The installation “A symphony of noise” will be showcased for the first time at Reeperbahn Festival. You can visit it before and after the talk.
The Talk will be held in English!
Augment your music! Können KI und VR auch Musik (Spoiler: ja) und was bringt das?
Denkt ihr bei Musik und Algorithmen auch nur an Spotify und für Euch "optimierte" Playlists? In diesem Talk zeigen euch die Macher*innen von “A symphony of noise“, einer interaktiven Virtual Reality-Musik-Installation, wie VR, Algorithmen und vom Besucher erzeugte Alltagsgeräusche zum Soundtrack eures Lebens verschmelzen und nebenher VR direkt ins Ohr geht. Kommt zu diesem Talk, dann wird euch schnell klar, dass Tech und kreatives Musikmachen = Zukunft ist!
Die Installation “A symphony of noise” wird auf dem Reeperbahn Festival uraufgeführt und kann vor oder nach dem Talk im Festivalvillage auf dem Spielbudenplatz besucht werden.
Auf Englisch!
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