Kelsey Cotton

 
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Mark




2024

September 8 +9

I will be presenting my paper Sounding out extra-normal AI voice: Non-normative musical engagements with normative AI voice and speech technologiesat the AI and Musical Creativity Conference in Oxford, UK. Plus! I’ll be demo-ing glemöhnic’. 

gentle pain@GBG Fringe

September 6 (19:00) + September 7 (15:00) @ Dramatiska 

Thrilled to share that I’m playing at the Gothenburg Fringe with my trio gentle pain, featuring  movement artist Kasia Paluch and visual artist Urška Medved. 
“We peek through the spaces and chasms, looking for lightness. Between parallel times, we twitch and shudder - gently, delicately, yet full of foreboding. Gentle Pain brings movement, sound and visual to bear - all three together without hierarchical order. Dancing upon a knifepoint, finding ease together in unease; composing a performative creation in time and space.”

Bookings➡️ https://www.gbgfringe.com/events/gentle-pain/

August 30

i’ll be live coding some AI beep boops @Koami Art Festival

Register now➡️ https://0en4tbk5jw7.typeform.com/to/j5auJW3y

May 30 - June 2

I will be presenting my paper ‘Singing for the Missing: Bringing the Body Back to AI Voice and Speech Technologies’  at Movement and Computing in Utrecht, the Netherlands. 

** it’s also my birthday during the conference, so it’ll be an extra special one! 


18 March @ 12:20pm EST

I will be giving a talk at UNATC „I. L. Caragiale” București ‘s AI in Art Practices and Research Conference.

My talk, titled Bringing Care-full Trouble to Musical AI will be about how artists can uncover (and work with) the residues and quirks that AI tools bring to their musical practices.

I’m excited to share some helpful tools with y’all! ✨


Check out the full schedule < here

*continual state of being**
I regularly upload live coding videos from my plei  project to my YouTube channel...
Feel free to have a squiz  

- WP of my track gorglemöhn, live on Season #7 of h a l f f l o o r’s amazing sound art roster.

ft. some of my gurgles, and the debut of my AI voice gurgle doppelgänger. I had so much fun coding it in strudel! You can listen to it at this link soon

( 🔗 click here to hear some previous seasons of h a l f f l o o r 🔗)

*continual state of being**
I’m running a study group “Vocal Ontology” with Patricia Vane at Skogen (click to check the schedule here), Gothenburg, SE.

2023

November 5 - World premiere of “EARTH” by Lina Järnegard. With Viva Vocal Ensemble at Cinnober, Gothenburg, SE. https://www.facebook.com/events/1474629323332993/

November 5 - World premiere of “AIR” by Casey Moir. With Viva Vocal Ensemble at Cinnober, Gothenburg, SE. https://

www.facebook.com/events/1474629323332993/

August 29- September 02 - Presenting my paper “Caring Trouble and Musical AI” at AIMC in Brighton, UK  

May - Gentle Pain. With Kasia Paluch and Urška Medved. Presented by ExPro Stage. HDK Valand, Gothenburg, SE. https://www.facebook.com/events/787461156075202

April 29 -  Gentle Pain (world premiere). With Kasia Paluch and Urška Medved as part of HUMANOGRAPHY for INTERNATIONELLA DANSENS DAG. Gothenburg, SE. https://www.facebook.com/events/6505169812829507/?ref=newsfeed   

2022

January and February - Launch of Intersomatic "SymbioSing" project. Music by Morton Feldman. KTH, Stockholm, SE. 

2021

December 3 - Performing in 'Transforming Space: the evocative power of the voice'by Casey Moir as part of the Viva Vocal Ensemble. Gothenburg, SE. https://www.facebook.com/events/885067565483440/?ref=newsfeed

September 22 and 24 - Performing in 'Music Mundana' by Mareike Nele Dobewall. Stockholm, SE. https://www.facebook.com/events/4534170296633819/

July - Performing as part of There is no air in Space at j3fm. Hannover, DE.

June 3 - World premiere of "Gertrude - What Happened" by Casey Moir. Text by Gertrude Stein. Gothenburg, SE.

February 18 - my poem “gerald cooks in half the time!” published by Dwell Time Press.
Read it < here >

2020

September 25 - 27 - World premiere of "Die Fragwürdigen". Text by Judith Keller. Dir: Lisa Pottstock. Hebebrand Str. 1. Hamburg, DE. https://www.facebook.com/events/327515648512463

July 18 - Impro Lab Live Sessions. Fritzen - Wohlwillstrasse 20. Hamburg, DE. https://www.facebook.com/events/626830674626638

July/August - World premiere of "The Body Electric" by Kelsey Cotton at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. https://youtu.be/L5DbL4XyBsU 

July/August - World premiere of "Raport o stanie planety" by Rysard Alzin. Kelsey will originate the role of Ania. Online distribution. More information coming soon.

April 1 to 30 -  #30daysofFluxus Project as part of There is no air in Space. Online. https://www.facebook.com/thereisnoairinspace

January 20 - Performing Philippe Leroux's "Un lieu verdoyant" as part of There is no air in Space at the Goethe Institut. Lyon, FRA. http://www.cnsmd-lyon.fr/agenda/departement-de-musique-de-chambre-67

January 24 - World premiere of "Angels look like..." by Helena Skljarov for Empreintes #2 at CNSMDL. Lyon, FRA. http://www.cnsmd-lyon.fr/agenda/empreintes-2 

January 26 - World premiere of "The Body Electric" by Kelsey Cotton at CNSMDL. Lyon, FRA. http://www.cnsmd-lyon.fr/agenda/promotion-copeco-4

January 28 - Performing "Manala Manaia" by Sander Saarmets and Kelsey Cotton; and "FMO_1" by Jana De Troyer at CNSMDL. Lyon, FRA. http://www.cnsmd-lyon.fr/agenda/promotion-copeco-3 

February 17 and 18 - Performing in "Mobile" and "40° en Varèse"at the CNSMDL. Lyon, FRA. Link coming soon.

2019

November 21 - Performing at Sounds of Stockholm in the world premiere of Casey Moir's piece "Outside In". Stockholm, SWE. Link coming soon.

October 24 - Performing Demian Rudel Rey's "Del olvido siempre gris" for LABO SAS. Lyon, FRA.

October 11 - Performing as part of There is no air in Space in Erasmus Days at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse et de la Musique. Lyon, FRA.  

September 21/22 - Performing Moya Henderson's opera "Stubble" at European Heritage Days at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse et de la Musique. Lyon, FRA.  Link coming soon.

September 21/22 - Performing in "Unveiling" as part of There is no air in Space at European Heritage Days at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse et de la Musique. World premieres of works by Jana De Troyer and Kelsey Cotton. Lyon, FRA.  Link coming soon.

May 27 - Performing in the world premiere of "Il Muro" by Davide Umbrello at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with the EMTA Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Toomas Vavilov. Tallinn, EST. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2216417518448432/

May 17- Performing in "Finissage" as part of the CoPeCo Collective at the Royal College of Music (KMH). Featuring world premieres of work by Tamara Laverman and the CoPeCo Collective. Stockholm, SWE. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/471689013568551/

April 29 - Performing at "Le DBNP/Ipshita Rajesh // Casey Moir/Kelsey Cotton". Vocal improvisation with Casey Moir at Fylkingen. Stockholm, SWE. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/322037835153048/

April 28 - Performing at Kulturnatt 2019 in "AudioVisible" as part of There is no air in Space. Featuring performances of works by Michael Sagulin, Alja Kosar and Thomas Kessler. Stockholm, SWE. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1102654416603232/

April 20 - Performing in "Inside the Box: CoPeCo / Emelie Markgren / Movers / V4R1". Stockholm, SWE. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/409542889870230/

April 12 - Performing at ljudOljud in "for 2" as part of the CoPeCo Collective. Performance of Kate Soper's “Only the words themselves mean what they say”. Stockholm, SWE. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/806594553041575/

April 5 - Appearing at the What Ever Works! Contemporary Music Festival as part of the CoPeCo Collective. Turku, Finland. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/294058194598840/

April 4 - Appearing at the What Ever Works! Contemporary Music Festival as part of There is no air in Space. Local premiere of Ted Moore's if two things don't fit...". Turku, Finland. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/636040886854790/  

April 2 - Performing in "cycle~". Performance of Witold Lutosławski's Five Songs After Poems by K. Iłłakowiczówna and the European premiere of Ted Moore's "if two things don't fit..." as part of There is no air in Space. Stockholm, SWE. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/368597137078803/

March 19 - Performing in "fragments" as part of the CoPeCo Collective. Performance of Georges Aperghis' Recitations 8, 9 and 11. Stockholm, SWE. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2070139893039745/

February 28 - Performing in "Experimentell Musik 2" as part of the CoPeCo Collective. Featuring world premiere performances of Kelsey Cotton's "Macros I and II". Stockholm, SWE. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2290895424568682/  

February 5 - Performing in "Experimentell Music 1" as part of the CoPeCo Collective. Stockholm, SWE. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2214363585455160/ 

January 17 - Performing in "Inside The Box #4" as part of the CoPeCo Collective. Tallinn, EST. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2222852457989678/  

January 12 - Performing in "Crossings". Featuring works by Stravinsky, Bonanno, Rorem, and world premieres by Mélanie Vibrac and Bonnie Yung. Tallinn, EST. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1031206197087991/

2018

December 14 - Performing in "Inside the Box #3: Adjööö" as part of the CoPeCo Collective. Featuring works by Kessler,  Amu, , Sciarrino, Saariaho, Andriessen, Sandra Kuntu-Blankson and Ryszard Alzin. Tallinn, EST. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/615267165556415/

December 4 - Performing in "Seemned" at ImProtest as part of the CoPeCo Collective. Tallinn, EST. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/356532391575817/

November 9 - Performing in "Inside the Box #2: Extended". Tallinn, EST. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2039643449430873/

October 23 - Performing at SügisFest as part of the CoPeCo Collective. Tallinn, EST. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1383490218450297/

October 7 - Performing in "Inside the Box #1: Lingua Franca". Featuring works by Kagel,  Tenney, Stockhausen, Cardew and Mélanie Vibrac. Tallinn, EST. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/547178895713532/

June 3 - Performing at "Beneath the Surface". Featuring works by Beach, Henderson Golijov and world premiere of Luke Severn's string quartet Beneath the Surface. Melbourne, AUS. Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/185326162193535/ 







Mark