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the sonification of the computing process in an analog neural network, 2019 | the sonification of the computing process in an analog neural network, 2019 |
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Can one hear the firing of neurons? Does their action potential have pitch and timbre? How do patterns and structures of a neural network look and sound? And what will happen if the network listen to these sound and pattern, too - and feeds this information back into the network? | The first song a computer intoned was in the 1970s when an IBM 704 at the Bell Labs sang‘ Daisy Bell’. The same song was sung by the artificial intelligence HAL-9000 in the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick.\\ |
| But why should an AI sang human songs?\\ |
| Won’t they prefer their own beats and melodies?\\ |
| The sonic structures produced by the eternal oscillation of analog neural networks is the more possible soundtrack when the technological singularity is reached and AI takes over. At that point in the future, when technology becomes uncontrollable - like the mathematischen John von Neumann predicted in the 1950s - the remains of the human civilization will probably listen to some kind of “Echo State Network” |
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At the core of the sound installation “Echo State Network” by Wolfgang Spahn is an artificial analog neural network that generates sonic pattern and audible structures. The circuit of the neuron is an adaption of an early neural model originally designed by Japanese mathematician Shun'ichi Amari to explain the human heart beats. Thus the factor time and feedback are added to the network. Compared to Facebook and Google networks this neural systems is much more complex and manifold in its appearance. One can say this analog artificial network mirrors far more the chaotic human nature than the digital AI implementations, it creates a real neural Doppelganger. | |
| The installation raises the question: can one hear the firing of neurons? Does their action potential have pitch and timbre? How do patterns and structures of a neural network look and sound? And what will happen if the network listen to these sound and pattern, too - and feeds this information back into the network? |
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| At the core of the sound installation “Echo State Network” by Wolfgang Spahn is an artificial analog neural network that generates sonic pattern and audible structures. The circuit of the neuron is an adaption of an early neural model originally designed by Japanese mathematician Shun'ichi Amari to explain the human heart beats. Thus the factor time and feedback are added to the network. Compared to Facebook and Google networks this neural systems is much more complex and manifold in its appearance. One can say this analog artificial network mirrors far more the chaotic human nature than the digital AI implementations. |
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| <iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/849690328&color=%23a4a19c&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/wolfgang-spahn" title="Wolfgang Spahn" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Wolfgang Spahn</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/wolfgang-spahn/echo-state-network-alt-space-loop-seoul" title="Echo State Network @ Alt Space Loop, Seoul" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Echo State Network @ Alt Space Loop, Seoul</a> |
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"Echo State Network" was shown at [[http://altspaceloop.com/exhibitions/echochamber-sfxseoul2019|Alt. Space Loop]] as part of the exhibition [[http://www.sfxseoul.org/2019/|Sound Effects Seoul]] Korea, 2019.\\ | "Echo State Network" was shown at [[http://altspaceloop.com/exhibitions/echochamber-sfxseoul2019|Alt-Space Loop]] as part of the exhibition [[http://www.sfxseoul.org/2019/|Sound Effects Seoul]] Korea, 2019.\\ |
With support of [[https://www.goethe.de/ins/kr/de/index.html|Goethe Institute Korea]].\\ | With support of [[https://www.goethe.de/ins/kr/de/index.html|Goethe Institute Korea]].\\ |
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... and many thanks to Martin Kuentz for all the soldering help.\\ | ... and many thanks to Martin Kuentz for helping to solder one million neurons.\\ |