Holly Herndon
Imagine the atmosphere of a Berlin nightclub, then smash it together with harp music.
Overview
Seekers of the avant-garde will want to check out Tennessee's Holly Herndon at Sydney Festival. She has received universal plaudits over the last decade for her forward-thinking, boundary-pushing take on sound creation. The musician uses code to create unique, custom-made digital instruments, and she'll be in the Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent off the back of her latest full-length, Proto.
The Berlin-based US musician has developed an AI program called Spawn, that she duets with — collaborating with her AI baby to make music. Human melodies meet synthetic sounds in this scientific and dizzying performance.