Back in April I did the second artistic research residency of the Co-Improvising with the Non-human project, this time at IRCAM. During the residency period I worked closely with Marco Fiorini of the REACH team to integrate Somax2 — an AI-based multi-agent system for human–machine co-improvisation — into my custom instrument, the Sophtar. Here is a Sophtar + Somax2 improvisation I did the night before leaving Paris.

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I recently got back from two very inspiring weeks at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) in Konstanz. There, I did the first artistic residency of my Musikfonds AI Scholarship project Co-improvising with the Non-human. I chose to visit this interdisciplinary research cluster in order to broaden my perspective on what intelligent behaviour is, and find new sources of inspiration for creating algorithmic agents for musical improvisation.

With an unprecedented minimum of 300,000 people displaced in Lebanon, community-led efforts are again working to provide basic aid. These often overlap with the very music and creative communities I'v...

Towards the end of 2025 I was very happy to find out that I am among the 15 artists selected by Musikfonds for their amazing Artificial Intelligence Scholarship Programme. My project explores how non-human group intelligence can inform the design of algorithmic agents for musical co-improvisation. I'll look at several non-human group behaviours, including how bees use sound to communicate…

Back in November I performed and presented the Sophtar at Most Wanted: Music Berlin (MW:M). The event that took place at the Kulturbrauerei, a multicultural centre created after the fall of the Berlin Wall in a converted 19th century brewery. My contribution was part of the Hybrid Music Lab, a platform within MW:M for exploring new forms of musical expression.

YouTube video by Algorithmic Pattern

Alpaca conference on algorithmic patterns in the creative arts Join this session online, or at watch parties/conference hubs in Barcelona, Berlin, Linz or Sheffield. https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/

Alexandre Saunier and I are presenting a paper co-authored with Maurice Jones about the behaviour generator based on large language models (LLMs) that we used during the Wilding AI workshop at MONOM, part of CTM Festival 2025. Some highlights of what we're presenting: LLM Behavior Generator that transforms textual prompts into expressive sound modulations and motions in space. Chain of thoughts involving a “recipe” LLM cascading into a “code” LLM.

Next week is NIME week! This year I am not going – Canberra is way too far from Berlin – but I finally got around uploading my presentation from last year's conference though, which took place in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Features the Sophtar and a somewhat pretentious digression about magic, ergodynamics, and a quote from a book by Benjamin Labatut I was reading on my way there.

TCP/IP live at Studio Acusticum 2025. Photo: Petter Sundkvist On Monday 9 June 2025 the TCP/Indeterminate Place quartet performed Reconciliation, a piece we composed in 2024 for a special double duo telematic performance in which two of us performed at the Kapelle der Versöhnung in Berlin and the other two at the Orgelpark in Amsterdam. This time we were all at the Studio Acusticum main concert hall, playing our instruments and interacting with the massive Acusticum/University pipe organ in several ways.

https://www.federicovisi.com/embedding-algorithms-workshop/ The Embedding Algorithms Workshop is an informal meeting of researchers and practitioners working with embedded systems in the fields of ...

Video playlist with all the 14 videos from the Embedding Algorithms Workshop. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLO0tUhzBqFWU0YQXUrNgPyDoqwaKZxwq

https://www.federicovisi.com/embedding-algorithms-workshop/ The Embedding Algorithms Workshop is an informal meeting of researchers and practitioners working...

I write about how peer review is currently ruining the scientific system.

YouTube video by Federico Visi

YouTube video by Federico Visi

I made a YouTube playlist with videos from the Embedded Algorithms Workshop. The event took place in July 2024 at Universität der Künste Berlin, we brought together a community of artists, researchers, and practitioners and had a great time discussing the practice of embedding algorithms in the arts with presentations, exhibitions, and performances. Four videos are already up, more in the coming days. Enjoy! Full playlist:

https://www.federicovisi.com/embedding-algorithms-workshop/ The Embedding Algorithms Workshop is an informal meeting of researchers and practitioners working...

Video of the performance at the 2025 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, Georgia Tech Ferst Center For The Arts, 8 March 2025. Jeff Albert: trombone; Sukandar Kartadinata & Federico Visi: Sophtar

Bela is a maker platform for creating beautiful interaction with sensors and sound. Our mission as a company is to give artists, musicians, designers and makers access to responsive interactive audio ...

YouTube video by Georgia Tech School of Music

The Sophtar has been selected as one the ten finalists in this year’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. Together with Sukandar Kartadinata, we will bring the instrument to the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta (US) to present it to the competition’s judges and participate in a public performance involving local Atlanta musicians. I designed the Sophtar and built it in collaboration with Kartadinata.