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The Oracle – A Prototype
Mälardalen University, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Educational Sciences and Mathematics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6501-5946
Kristianstad University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5878-1936
2022 (English)Artistic output (Unrefereed)
Description [en]

The Oracle is the title of an operatic prototype that was presented live in 2022 in connection to Future Media Theaters, an international initiative bringing together partners from industry, academia, and the cultural sector to investigate and create new forms of performance using interactive technologies. Produced as an AI-based opera, the prototypical artwork was conceptualized as a one-to-one micro-opera for soprano voice and electronic music in combination with text generated by artificial intelligence. The public event included professional performance, documentation, and evaluation. With prototyping used as a method for artistic research, the artistic output provided the artists-researchers with knowledge about for instance technological and cognitive challenges, and user experiences.

Abstract [en]

The development of operatic works that involve artificial intelligence (AI) is an expanding field of artistic inquiry. In order to test how AI-generated text can be used in a dynamic and responsive opera libretto, the prototypical micro-opera The Oracle was conceived and presented live at PlayLab in Skövde. The theme of the immersive opera was the myth of the Delphic oracle, with the twist that the seeress now was connected to the digital realm rather than a divine dimension. The conceptual prototype was designed with interactive features and included a rhetoric and metric model for real-time text generation, a basic musical structure, and an set design into which the participating visitors could enter one by one to meet the singing soprano oracle, who conveyed the computer’s message to the recipient. The process and the performances were documented and the design elements and the multi-sensory composition of The Oracle can be further elaborated in future artistic productions.

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2022.
Keywords [en]
opera, design, artificial intelligence, generative text, multi-sensory composition, performance, human-computer interaction, immersion
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Performing Arts
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-61678OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-61678DiVA, id: diva2:1732193
Available from: 2023-01-30 Created: 2023-01-30 Last updated: 2023-02-07Bibliographically approved

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