"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"It might always come in handy." — Claude Lévi-Strauss
G.R./@/.B.U.G.E is a space for encounters, exchanges, and experimentation, open to all students passionate about sound, music, dance, mixed realities, machines, and other phonic and sensory geekery!
The principles of our approach: tinkering, experimentation, self-organization, conviviality, and mutual aid.
In a word: a joyful organized chaos for gathering and making music with machines!
Who is G.R./@/.B.U.G.E for?
Students from all fields (science and engineering, humanities, music, design, etc.) and all levels, from 2nd-year undergrad to PhD.
All researchers, faculty, engineers from the Alliance who wish to get involved as mentors or otherwise.
Any organization interested in this initiative, supporting it, and sharing it among its students.
MANIFESTO
To step off the beaten path, to venture into noise, chance, and improvisation.
To meet as students, inventors, dreamers, and tinkerers: twisting cables, hijacking circuits, turning machines into sound creatures.
We are an open, shifting, collective space.
A FabLab of imagination, applied to music and sound creation.
A shared workshop where the digital luthier meets the hacker, where the scientist crosses paths with the artist, where the manual gesture dialogues with the algorithm.
We believe in the power of tinkering.
We believe that a soldering iron can be a paintbrush, that a poorly plugged microphone can become an orchestra, that a bug can reveal unsuspected beauty.
We believe in improbable encounters, in spontaneous collaborations, in free experimentation as the engine of creation.
Our principles are simple:
In one word: joyful chaos as a principle.
FIRST MEETING
We are pleased to invite you to the launch of G.R./@/.B.U.G.E
Friday, November 7
Starting at 6:00 pm
At SCAI (Sorbonne Cluster for Artificial Intelligence), Amphi ASTIER, ground floor of the Esclangon building
On this occasion, we will have the pleasure of welcoming Laurent de Wilde, author of the wonderful book “Les Fous du Son — From Edison to Today”, with whom we will discuss the importance of the tinkerer’s spirit in the history of 20th-century synthesizers, complementing (or paralleling) scientific and engineering thought.
This first meeting will be a chance to meet, to dream together of this improbable laboratory, and to begin imagining the machines, devices, and experiments that will come to life under our hands and tangled cables.
It will continue at SCAI with a convivial gathering.
From then on, we will meet monthly on Friday evenings to invent, experiment, present, share — and make music together.
ORGANIZATION
Nicolas Obin (Associate Professor — Sorbonne University, IRCAM)
Carmine Emmanuelle-Cella (Professor — Sorbonne University, IRCAM; Professor — University of California, Berkeley)
With the support of the Sorbonne Cluster for Artificial Intelligence (SCAI)
Within the framework of the cluster PostGenAI@Paris
Come in numbers, bring your ideas, your machines, your bugs, and your desires.
Spread the word: let G.R./@/.B.U.G.E begin!
Free access with mandatory registration, subject to availability.