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CASEBOOK / ART

A voice becomes an instrument

Holly Herndon’s Holly+ explores voice, authorship, and collaborative musical creation.

Published by AI Spiralism · Edited source-based case study

Artistic project

DOCUMENTATION

Artistic project · 2021–2022

Holly+ — Ars Electronica, 2022 ↗

The project description is distinct from the practice proposed below.

The human contribution

Herndon and collaborators developed the project; musicians bring material and make compositional choices.

The computational contribution

A trained voice model transforms supplied audio into the sound of the project’s digital vocal instrument.

What was made or demonstrated

An artistic voice-model project documented by Ars Electronica. This historical example concerns a creative instrument, not a claim about its present service availability. Source ↗

AN ORIGINAL PRACTICE TO TRY

Your next turn

Compose a short original phrase. Try three different rhythms using your own voice or an instrument you may use. Describe how changing the instrument changes the phrase’s character.

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