《The Welcome Chorus》（欢迎合唱团）是一个结合了声音、雕塑和人工智能（AI）的互动装置。受特纳当代美术馆委托为Margate NOW节创作，该雕塑由十二个号角组成，每个号角代表着肯特郡的不同地区。每个号角持续吟唱着由专门训练过的、特定地点的人工智能软件实时生成的歌词。象征性地和审美上，这些雕塑形式引用了“肯特”一词的起源；这个词被认为来源于“kanto”，意为号角或钩子。
通过一系列包容性的民主工作坊和在肯特图书馆举行的聚会，来自全县各地的人们贡献了反映他们肯特经历的歌词到人工智能数据库中。关于肯特的历史、风景和河口、产业和服务的变化、城乡关系以及旅行、迁移和移动的看法等生成的歌词和声音片段都被提交了。每个号角的颜色是由来自肯特不同地区的图书馆工作人员选定的。
在现场，参观者对着一个独特的“指挥”雕塑说话或唱歌——他们的话语随后将在即时的声音环境中被听到，并被加入到持续的机器学习中。人工智能在整个展览过程中不断进化，从而在参与者和机器之间产生新颖且意想不到的交流。
客户
特纳当代美术馆
致谢
Gabriel Vergara II
Adam Cheong-MacLeod
Alice Lazarus
Karol Sielski
Fish Fabrications
Counterpoint
Matt Smyth
Alberto Balasz
Eira Szadurski
The Welcome Chorus is an interactive installation that brings together sound, sculpture and artificial intelligence (AI). Commissioned by Turner Contemporary for Margate NOW festival, the sculpture consists of twelve horns, each representing a different district of Kent. Each horn continually sings lyrics which are generated live by a uniquely trained, site-specific piece of AI software. Symbolically and aesthetically, these sculptural forms reference the origin of the word ‘Kent’; thought to derive from the word ‘kanto’, meaning horn or hook.
Through an inclusive democratic process of workshops and gatherings at Kent Libraries, people from all over the county contributed lyrics reflecting on their Kentish experience to the AI data bank. Generated lyrics and sound bites, on the history of Kent, its landscapes and estuaries, changes to industry and services, the relationship between urban and rural areas and perceptions around journeying, migration and movement, were all submitted. The colours of each horn were selected by library staff from the varying areas of Kent.
Onsite, visitors speak or sing into a unique ‘conductor’ sculpture- their words will then be heard in the immediate soundscape and added to the ongoing machine learning. The AI continues to evolve throughout the course of the exhibition, resulting in novel and unexpected exchanges between participant and machine.
CLIENT
Turner Contemporary
CREDITS
Gabriel Vergara II
Adam Cheong-MacLeod
Alice Lazarus
Karol Sielski
Fish Fabrications
Counterpoint
Matt Smyth
Alberto Balasz
Eira Szadurski
