{"id":986,"date":"2024-01-15T00:17:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T22:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/?p=986"},"modified":"2024-08-06T12:07:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T10:07:03","slug":"humana-machina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/humana-machina\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Ekeberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Frank Ekeberg<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meta.Morf 2024 \u2013 [up]Loaded Bodies \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitensenteret.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vitensenteret i Trondheim<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\/<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Concert at Planetariet, August 11 @ 20:00. <strong>Free entrance!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">humana|machina (2024)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World premiere!<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\">humana|machina <\/span>is an immersive electroacoustic music composition that invites you into a sonic realm where the boundaries of human and machine dissolve. It takes as its starting point the desire to extend human senses and capabilities by means of technology. The piece is composed of sounds that are both organic and mechanical, sounds of machines and technology juxtaposed with the sounds of nature and the human voice. The title itself, a fusion of the Latin terms for \u2018human\u2019 and \u2018machine,\u2019 becomes a symbolic canvas upon which the narrative of our modern existence unfolds. The composition serves as an exploration of the intricate interplay between the organic and the synthetic, a journey into the evolving relationship that defines our era. \u201chumana|machina\u201d is an abstraction, a reflection, and an invitation. It is a sonic bridge connecting the ancient with the futuristic, the human with the machinic. A loose narrative serves as a guide through the auditory landscapes that echo the complexities of our interconnected world, where boundaries blur, and the essence of human and machine is laid bare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Text contributions by Chat GPT, Bard, and Bing AI; voices by Coqui XTTS.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #333333;\">humana|machina<\/span> was commissioned by Meta.Morf 2024 with generous support from the Norwegian Cultural Fund.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Frank Ekeberg<\/strong> (NO) is a transdisciplinary artist, music composer and researcher working in the intersection of the natural and the constructed. His work explores issues of ecology, time, spatiality, and radical change, with a particular focus on nature spaces, technopolitics, and the interplay between human and non-human worlds. Primarily working with sound using obsolete as well as emerging technologies, Ekeberg&#8217;s artistic output includes generative installation art, immersive electroacoustic music, photography, and interactive audio-visual creations. Site-specificity and integration of spatial elements in the compositional structure are at the core of most of his projects. Ekeberg&#8217;s works have been widely presented in venues around the world, including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chicharra Festival<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Spain), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acousma<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (France), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Symposium on Electronic Art<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Australia, Dubai, Canada, Spain), Saemien Sijte (Norway), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (USA), Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (Germany), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Computer Music Conference<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Cuba, Sweden, Singapore, USA) Carlow Art Collection (Ireland), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Finland), CMMAS (Mexico), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seoul International Computer Music Festival<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Korea), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inner Space<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Croatia), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fronteras del Silencio<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Argentina), Felleshus (Berlin), ASU Art Museum (USA), and many more. He was awarded the Smithsonian Artist-Research Fellowship in 2017, and is currently the recipient of the Norwegian Government Grant for Artists.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frank Ekeberg holds a master&#8217;s degree in electronic music from Mills College in Oakland, California, where he studied composition with Pauline Oliveros and Alvin Curran, and a Ph.D. in electroacoustic music from City University London, UK, supervised by Denis Smalley. Ekeberg spends most of his time living and working in Trondheim, Norway.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/frankekeberg.no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">frankekeberg.no<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Header graphics by DALL-E \/ Portrait photo: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luz Mar\u00eda S\u00e1nchez.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 18px;\">humana|machina \/<br \/>World premiere! Concert, The Planetarium, Vitensenteret i Trondheim, August 11 @ 20:00<br \/><\/span>humana|machina is an immersive electroacoustic music composition that invites you into a sonic realm where the boundaries of human and machine dissolve. It takes as its starting point the desire to extend human senses and capabilities by means of technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/humana-machina\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5299,"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/5299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metamorf.no\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}