Yasunao Tone (New York) live webcast on Wave Farm Radio. He has collaborated with Prof. Tony Myatt, University of Surrey UK, and a team of researchers including Dr. Paul Modler, with the support of the ISSUE Project Room in 2016; a series of performances using Tone’s MP3 Deviation software were captured in a laboratory then used to train Kohoen Neural Networks to develop artificial intelligences that can simulate several of his performance approaches; the AIs are integrated in a software framework and computer performance system that extracts attributes from the audio they generate to “listen” to the output and make performance actions as if they were virtual Tone performers; five versions of Tone AI exist in the performance software, each of which exhibits certain responses modeled on those previously adopted by Tone; in performance, Tone will deviate and control AI versions of himself along with the mechanisms that each AI uses to hear and respond to the audio they generate; deviating and corrupting the technologies designed to simulate his own performances, deviating and interacting live with AI versions of himself as performer; special guest artist, Ami Yamasaki, outstanding voice performance artist

The Forty-fifth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Twenty-eighth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part One (or A) Phill Niblock, curator December 2017