Activities
Phase I 2024-2025
After a two week residency at Laboratoire formes · ondes at Université de Montréal, FERAL FREQUENCIES presents the artistic culmination of a two-long process of research-creation experiments demonstrating developed capabilities in AI-driven sound spatialization. The composition traverses four key themes the collective explored: Emotional Sovereignty ; Data That Matters ; The Algorithmic Shape of Stories ; and Breaking Machines / Making Kin.
The residency and presentation of FERAL FREQUENCIES is supported by the « Laboratoire formes · ondes » at Université de Montréal, MONOM Studios and 4DSOUND.
The development of FERAL FREQUENCIES at the Society for Arts and Technology is funded by the Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Innovation et de l'Énergie, in partnership with MA Scène Nationale.
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After a two week residency at Laboratoire formes · ondes at Université de Montréal, FERAL FREQUENCIES presents the artistic culmination of a two-long process of research-creation experiments demonstrating developed capabilities in AI-driven sound spatialization. The composition traverses four key themes the collective explored: Emotional Sovereignty ; Data That Matters ; The Algorithmic Shape of Stories ; and Breaking Machines / Making Kin.
The residency and presentation of FERAL FREQUENCIES is supported by the « Laboratoire formes · ondes » at Université de Montréal.
The development of FERAL FREQUENCIES at the Society for Arts and Technology is funded by the Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Innovation et de l'Énergie, in partnership with MA Scène Nationale.
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During the residency the collective mobilized their developed neural toolkit for sound generation and spatialization to explore four thematic avenues: Emotional Sovereignty ; Data That Matters ; The Algorithmic Shape of Stories ; and Breaking Machines / Making Kin.
Laboratoire formes · ondes
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Afternoons were reserved for lab participants to prototype collectively and experiment artistically in a shared spatial audio environment. Through the lab, the sound artists, musicians, dancers, choreographers, and developers generated spatial behaviors, translated prompts into movement, and investigated new compositional methods. The lab fostered rich and critical conversations around LLM, generativity and diverse creative practices. The final day culminated in a public listening session where the participants performed in duos, inviting audiences to interact with artistic responses to the wilder territories of AI.
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For simultaneous exploration, the team split into two groups: one focused on crafting and refining text-based prompts, while the others tested the sound behavior and spatialisation. Part of the development process involved testing multiple users to spatialise sound at the same time — a first for the MONOM itself. This allowed sonic agents to interact dynamically within a shared spatial field. Alongside technical testing, the residency sparked deep discussions around storytelling and the emerging behaviors of AI-driven sonic agents, laying the groundwork for the public lab to follow.
MONOM Studios
If sound were alive, how would it behave? Through experiments using Max/MSP and multi-agent systems, the lab tested how individual sonic agents could evolve behaviors with LLMs, and how collective agents might interact spatially. Key questions focused on defining the expressive parameters of AI-generated sound, such as motion, delay, harmony, distortion, and the role of storytelling as a medium between human intent and machine behavior. Framed as a critical response to dominant AI paradigms, the Wilding AI Lab at MUTEK Mexico invited local and international participants to join the discussions, learn about the application of generative AI in spatial audio, and collectively explore the wilder territories of AI.
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Building on the system framework created at the Hexagram residency, MUTEK Forum lab focused on developing the memory guidelines for the LLMs, allowing the sonic agents to build long term memory, which could then be translated into recipes, then code and movement. The lab raised new questions of meaningful movement and spatial bodily awareness of sonic agents. As the first in a series of public experiments, the lab invited artists and audiences alike to collectively imagine wild alternatives to dominant AI models through sound, space, and speculative design.
The residency produced a working system that integrates GPT-3.5 and 4DSOUND, generating dynamic sound movement and LLM behavior. Sonic agents were conceptualised with three core components: sense (input and analysis), behavior (prompt and recipe), and generative output (sound creation and spatialisation). This framework raised critical artistic and technical questions: how can LLMs be used to design meaningful sonic behaviours, and how might such systems evolve into instruments for artists? The open studio offered a demonstration of these developments and fostered dialogue around speculative futures in spatialized generative AI.