{"id":90,"date":"2023-08-14T10:46:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T10:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/?p=90"},"modified":"2023-09-25T21:09:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T21:09:49","slug":"introducing-the-ostoyae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/weekofsound\/introducing-the-ostoyae\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Ostoyae – The mycomusical instrument for listening with mushrooms and machines [13:30 and 15:00, 20\/10\/2023]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This event is in two parts
Part 1<\/strong>
When: 13:30-14:30 20\/10\/2023
Where: ECA West Court<\/a>, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
What: An introduction to the instrument, the sounds it makes an invitation for visitors to explore and interact with it.<\/strong>
UNESCO Week of Sound events are free, book a ticket<\/a>.<\/strong>
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Part 2<\/strong>
When: 15:00-16:00 20\/10\/2023
Where: ECA West Court<\/a>, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
What: A concert featuring Maria Sappho, The Ostoyae, and Una MacGlone (double bass). <\/strong>
UNESCO Week of Sound events are free, book a ticket<\/a>.
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Maria Sappho writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The explosive advancement in AI has created a host of important ethical questions considering the protection of human rights and intellectual property, global challenges of unbalanced access, and concerning bias and socio-political issues in need of attention. Nevertheless, these machines will continue to populate almost all sectors of our lives, and the techno-moral considerations that they bring with them provide valuable opportunities to seize this moment of socio-cultural change.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As an artist, I wonder what kinds of paths we will take as we build these new human-machine futures. That is, as our communities diversify through new technological possibilities \u2013 will we be capable of applying techno-social lessons towards understanding our capacity to live and collaborate effectively? The Ostoyae is a new musical instrument developed with and for multi-species listening, working towards communication between myself, my AI named Chimere<\/em>, and mushrooms.

My work proposes we might experiment with making music within a new trifecta that joins the human, machine and organic world as a new creative ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ostoyae<\/em><\/strong> is named after one of the biggest and most ancient living beings on our planet, the Armillaria Ostoyae<\/em>, a master at collective community flourishing. The Ostoyae<\/em><\/strong> instrument has been built so that you can try out this new future of diverse multi-species co-creation, future building, and creative thinking. You need not need consider yourself a musician, or musical in any way to play it. You, like every other agent within this multi-species musical ecosystem, are part of a project for experimentation and exploration.  One which comes with no pre-determined techniques, aesthetics or values, but rather simply a speculative question: how would you like to contribute in a diverse multi-species community?”<\/p>\nMaria Sappho<\/a> www.mariasappho.com\/<\/a> <\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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