Join us for "Acoustic Planetarium" – a one-night-only immersive audio journey through the cosmos! Brought to you by The And Foundation with contributions from ElevenLabs, Realdreams.io, Tigris Data, and OpenLicense AI. Experience the human centered, immersive evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to the age of AI, featuring live cello performances intertwined with AI-generated sounds and stunning spatial audio effects.
This immersive audio journey invites participants to traverse the grand tapestry of the universe’s evolution, from the primal burst of the Big Bang to the dawn of the AI age. It seamlessly blends the soulful resonance of live cello music with a rich tapestry of curated and AI-generated sounds, enveloped in spatial audio effects.
The dynamic interplay between the live musician and the ethereal whispers of AI-generated audio crafts an unparalleled voyage, dissolving the boundaries between dream and reality. Participants will witness the unfolding of time and the blossoming of life, ultimately finding peace in the new age of AI and the boundless expansion of consciousness.
This journey allows you to feel the heartbeat of existence, to sense the rhythm of life’s evolution, and to embrace the harmonious future where technology and consciousness coalesce into an endless variety of expressions.
Our Featured Artists
august kamp is a LA-Based trans artist in an ever-intensifying game of leapfrog with the systems available on a computer.
she taught herself music this way, and through relentlessly supportive co-mentorship with close collaborators and friends over the last five or so years.
these days, her art permeates most modalities of media equally - from extensively curated still-image visuals to audio-reactive abstract wordless meditation-videos made near-exclusively for close friends. images and videos recorded from her dreams using “verbal dream-reconstruction imaging”
she follows her curiosity, mostly.
she is waist-deep in ai work right now - helping various research-labs tune and perfect artificial intelligence systems that enable her, or anyone, to create whatever is in their head.
@august.kamp on Instagram
Described as playing with “authority, grace and artistry…” following her most recent performance of the Haydn Cello Concerto in D with the Oakville Symphony Orchestra, Kendra Grittani is a up and coming young cellist performing in venues across Canada. Kendra has completed her Masters in cello performance at McGill University with accomplished symphonic and chamber musician, and cello professor, Elizabeth Dolin.
Kendra has performed with various orchestras including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the McGill Symphony Orchestra, the McGill Opera Orchestra, the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Prior to her move to California, Kendra held
a full time position with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony cello section.
As a chamber musician, with the piano trio ‘Trio Meira’, Kendra Grittani was awarded 1st prize at the 2018 McGill University Chamber Competition. Along with a debut performance in Montreal, ‘Trio Meira’ was awarded a week long residency at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.
@kendrascello on Instagram