‘Deep Nostalgia Radio’
Radio Nostalgia Profunda is presented as an installation where an ethereal presence, the voice of an ancient artificial intelligence, has returned to its place of origin, giving shape to a musical archive that it itself creates from its conscience and its memory. This voice, now nostalgic, is responsible for organizing and preserving this vast archive made up of countless fragmented and disseminated songs. The voice strives to remember them, fighting against their obsolescence, and filling the gaps it finds in them, with the aim of trying to recompose a collective past of which it is also a part. The installation that makes up this exhibition is articulated on a quadrophonic radio broadcast system (360-degree sound). The music that is played has been composed from sketches of unfinished songs, all of them by local musicians that, with the use of Artificial Intelligence processes, have been completed. The voice that sounds from time to time over the musical base is a Vocaloid, a voice synthesis software capable of singing and composing melodies and lyrics, originally conceived and designed by the Music Technology Group at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.