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Do Not Feed the Musicians

Immersive Concert

A concert as an experimental lab: musicians and audience are monitored, analyzed, copied. An algorithm that listens, watches, evaluates — and interferes. What begins as a tech startup’s trial run evolves into an immersive audiovisual narrative about creativity in the age of AI and digital reproducibility. As streaming platforms are flooded with AI-generated music and algorithms decide what we hear, Do Not Feed the Musicians asks about the value of human expression in a world where art becomes fodder for the machine. Somewhere between performance, installation, and pop concert, the experience unfolds into a dazzling, abstract visual journey, accompanied by pulsating indietronica tunes — performed live by emerging media artists and a four-piece band, in 360° projection and surround sound.

Audiovisual concert performance, 360° real-time visuals, 28 projectors, spatialized multi-channel sound, 90 loudspeakers

  • Immersive Concert
  • Rhyality Immersive Art Hall

Dates

12 September 2025
20 September 2025

Type

Independent Project

Roles

Concept, Storytelling, Design, Programming, Setup, Show Control

Technologies

TouchDesigner, Kinect, Chataigne, Pixera, Reaper, Holophonix, Node.js, Svelte.js

Credits

Concept, Storytelling:
Jonas Wolter, Saïd Boulahcen, Vivien Helbling

Visuals Creation:
Jonas Wolter, Vivien Helbling

Programming Real-Time Video Rendering Pipeline, Video Network:
Jonas Wolter

Composition, Sound Design, Spatialized 3D Audio Mix:
Saïd Boulahcen

Live Band:
Saïd Boulahcen, Luis Aellig, Marco Clerc, Matthias Stamm