Just arrived at @ircam_paris for #improtech . Setting up the Sophtar in studio 5, this afternoon at 16:30 I will presents the instrument and its distinctive techniques, and improvise with different algorithms and models. #sophtar #musicresearch #newinstruments
Next week is NIME week! Not going this year – Canberra is way too far from Berlin – but I finally uploaded my presentation from last year. Features the Sophtar and a somewhat pretentious digression about magic, ergodynamics, and a quote from a book by Benjamin Labatut #NIME #NewInstruments #Sophtar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcftQWdpFw0 https://www.federicovisi.com/sophtar-presentation-at-nime-2024/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social
The Sophtar: paper presentation at NIME 2024 – Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

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Photos and a short video from the TCP/IP quartet concert at Studio Acusticum. I played the #Sophtar and tested a few new interactions with the Acusticum #Hyperorgan.

https://www.federicovisi.com/tcp-indeterminate-place-quartet-performs-reconciliation-at-studio-acusticum/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

TCP/Indeterminate Place quartet performs Reconciliation at Studio Acusticum

TCP/IP live at Studio Acusticum 2025. Photo: Petter Sundkvist On Monday 9 June 2025 the TCP/Indeterminate Place quartet performed Reconciliation, a piece we composed in 2024 for a special double du…

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More videos from the Embedding Algorithms Workshop! Three this time: @federicovisi (me!) with an early presentation of the #Sophtar (so much has happened since then, particularly after working at the #intelligentinstruments Lab) https://youtu.be/N8uK5HPQ5lM
Federico Visi – The Sophtar: a networkable feedback string instrument with embedded machine learning

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Video of the Sophtar performance at the 2025 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, Georgia Tech, 8 March 2025.
Jeff Albert: trombone;
Sukandar Kartadinata & Federico Visi: #Sophtar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpw6pRQltrY https://www.federicovisi.com/sophtar-live-at-the-2025-guthman-musical-instrument-competition/

Sophtar live at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition 2025

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The Sophtar is a musical instrument with embedded
#machinelearning that I have been working on the past couple of years. Here is the #Sophtar page on the #IntelligentInstrumentsLab website: https://iil.is/research/sophtar

#academicchatter #academicsky #ai #ml #music #experimentalmusic

Sophtar | Intelligent Instruments Lab

The Sophtar is a networkable feedback string instrument with embedded machine learning

Some of the work on the #sophtar I did at the Intelligent Instruments Lab in Iceland:
- we built an extension that allows the instrument to self-play by means of solenoids (with thanks to Halldór Úlfarsson);
- we implemented a filtering system to control feedback for specific harmonics for each string (with thanks to @thor for the idea);
- we embedded ML models to activate the solenoids and tune the filters (with thanks to @victorrileys ) #ml
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jfT23OIyD0
The Sophtar at the Intelligent Instruments Lab

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Presenting the #sophtar online for the Artistic Research Forum 2024, with @josteinstalheim in Trondheim and the TCP/IP quartet. North to south: Stefan Östersjö in Luleå, @codespira1 in Stockholm, @robertek_74 in Malmö and myself in Berlin. We will perform and then show something about our work for the #zosimos telematic opera, #hyperorgans , and #sophtar
Join on Zoom here: https://hkdir-no.zoom.us/s/64661707819

#artisticresearch #telematicperformance

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On my way back to Iceland from #nime2024 I had such a great time, lots of inspiring performances and presentations and very nice to meet many old and new friends in person. It was sooo much fun to perform with the #sophtar on stage at TivoliVredenburg together with seven other musicians.
On my way to Utrecht to play and present my instrument - the #sophtar - at #nime2024
The program looks really cool https://www.nime2024.org/program.php?day=monday
Looking forward to tomorrow’s workshop on Embedded AI with Teresa Pelinski & @charlesmartin
l’m performing at the curated jam on Thursday night at TivoliVredenburg and presenting on Friday morning at HKU Conservatorium.
NIME 2024