https://videos.scanlines.xyz/videos/watch/0dd4158e-9949-4970-96dd-e289190cc120 Recursive Speculation is an improvised vocal performance that features a vocalist and the Multi-Agent Autonomous Looper (MAAL), a co-creative sampler/looper based on a multi-agent logic algorithm and machine listening. MAAL is composed of several agents, each controlling a loop track, which can autonomously decide to sample and play back segments of a live vocal performance by listening to each other. The performance evolves as a dialogue between the musician and the ALL, in which the system acts as speculative mirror, a machine able to autonomously select and repeat segments of the performer’s voice, layering them to construct evolving musical structures. The machine appropriates vocal segments, it disembodies them through repetition, reimagining their meaning and their musical function by recombination and association. The musician and the ALL are in a co-creative feedback where the musician generates the material the system selects, and at the same time she must respond to the system’s autonomous choices throughout the performance. https://www.vmad.me https://kelseycotton.com Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:39:19 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://videos.scanlines.xyz https://videos.scanlines.xyz/lazy-static/avatars/eb92bef9-89cb-4d3d-9914-de3ff12058b8.png https://videos.scanlines.xyz/videos/watch/0dd4158e-9949-4970-96dd-e289190cc120 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://videos.scanlines.xyz/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.