Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst and Serpentine Arts Technologies invite the public to sing together from the songbook developed for The Call.
Off-site at Stone Nest, 136 Shaftesbury Ave, London W1D 5EZThursday 30 January 2025, 7pm
Price: £15
Join artists Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst and Serpentine’s Arts Technologies team for a final choral recording celebrating the closing days of their exhibition, The Call. In developing The Call, the team toured the UK, working with 15 different choirs to record a training data set for a suite of choral AI models. The choirs sang from a songbook specifically composed for AI training.
During this informal recording session, London Contemporary Voices and audience members are invited to sing from Herndon and Dryhurst’s songbook and record a final session that will be added to the choral dataset. The event includes songs and exercises performed from the songbook, insights into the songbook’s AI design, and stories from the recording tour.
Doors open at Stone Nest at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. The recording session will last approximately 90 minutes. Those who wish to sing along will join the choir—no music reading or prior experience is required (you will be prompted in situ).
The evening’s recording will be added to the UK Choral Dataset for AI training, a resource created as part of the exhibition. Serpentine is the steward of this dataset and may sublicense it only according to the terms set out by the 15 choirs involved. These terms include artistic and research purposes such as training new AI models for musical experimentation or analysing the dataset to study regional accents. Those wishing to participate in the recording session will receive further information about these terms, along with an agreement to review and sign before joining.
People who do not wish to participate can watch from the gallery at Stone Nest.
BSL interpretation is available on request. Please get in touch at [email protected] if you would like to request this.
