@ HCI – Division for Human-Computer Interaction,
Techno-Z Salzburg Bauteil V, Jakob-Haringer-Straße 8, 5020 Salzburg
TALK:
„Songwriting as a System: The Semantic Machine, a Song That Changes with the World Around You“
Tracy Redhead presents The Semantic Machine, a mobile-app artwork and transmutable song that changes according to the listener’s location, time of day, and weather. Developed in collaboration with Florian Thalmann, the work explores how a recorded song can remain authored and recognisable while shifting through data-responsive musical, lyrical, and visual variations. Framed as a speculative artwork about personal data and algorithmic personalisation, the talk considers songwriting as a system: a way of composing songs that are responsive, plural, and shaped by changing contexts.
SPEAKER:
Tracy Redhead is a musician, composer, songwriter, and researcher working across recorded music, interactive technologies, and creative practice. She is Senior Lecturer at the UWA Conservatorium of Music and author of Interactive Technologies and Music Making: Transmutable Music (Routledge, 2024). Her work explores how recorded music can become dynamic, adaptive, and context-aware, informed by her practice as a recording artist and her research into songwriting, data, interaction, and transmutable music.
More information about Tracy Redhead:
http://www.tracyredhead.com
https://thesemanticmachine.com/
Language: EN
picture credit: Tracy Redhead
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