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Venezia, bianco e nero /  by David Korchin

Ponte dei Sospiri (“Bridge of Sighs”), Venice IT

It’s probably one of the most visited—and photographed—cities in the world. Winter, I thought, would be a good time to point a lens and without throngs of tourists becoming part of the scene, though there are many great photographers who make crowds the essential subject. My first hours were pretty snap-happy, having never visited before. But after a few days I felt if I ever shoot another gondola scene again it’ll be too soon. Here are a few night time frames, gallery views and isolated moments.

Moorings along the Grand Canal, Venice IT

Carlo Scarpa light installation from “Italia ‘51”; Le Stanze del Vetro, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice IT

Close-up,Carlo Scarpa light installation from “Italia ‘51”; Le Stanze del Vetro, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice IT

Boatman, Hôtel Danieli, Venice IT

Alleyway, Venice IT

Tabletop, Harry’s Bar, Venice IT

music in the making /  by David Korchin

The composer Mathieu Lamboley prepares a manuscript. Paris, France.

I had a chance to work in Paris recently with director Eric D'Amario on a cool project documenting artificial intelligence-generated music. The assignment involved running sentiment analysis on thousands of words from the top stories in business and technology in the French Press, to learn what people are saying about subjects like Cloud, the Internet of Things, digital currencies, security, etc. From that analysis, the creative coder Hannah Davis used her Transprose algorithm to turn those sentiments into musical motifs, from which a human composer—Mathieu Lamboley (above)—built a three-movement orchestral work entitled Symphonologie. The data visualists at Rare Volume added pre-rendered visuals married to real-time input from the 52-piece orchestra at the début performance under the pyramid at Le Louvre on 20 September, 2016. 

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The director Eric D'Amario

Oliver Imfest, Director of Photography

Composer Mathieu Lamboley

Mathieu Lamboley leads the recording of Symphonologie at Studio Davout, Paris.

The Symphonologie stage and data display, Le Louvre.

Brian Jones of Bang Music, discusses the Symphonologie project with French media.