The Art of Experimental Music: Sound, Space, and Imagination

From the venue:

The Art of Experimental Music: Sound, Space, and Imagination is a one-night immersive performance that transforms Gainey Hall into a living, responsive instrument. Blending experimental electronic music, spatial audio, live performance, and real-time visual processing, the evening invites audiences to experience sound as something that moves, listens, and evolves in the moment.

Presented by artists from Georgia Institute of Technology and Savannah College of Art and Design, the performance unfolds across a series of distinct movements. In each, musicians and visual artists collaborate with generative systems that interpret and respond to human gesture, blurring the boundary between performer and instrument.

Sound travels throughout the room via multichannel spatial audio, while large-scale projections translate musical and physical gesture into evolving visual form. No two moments are the same — the performance itself becomes a living system shaped by dialogue between human creativity and computational response.

Featured Artists & Performances

Kyle Smith — Electronics & Direction

Kyle Smith leads the production, performing with generative electronic systems that respond in real time to the musicians onstage. His work weaves spatial audio, live electronics, and immersive visuals into a cohesive arc that connects each movement of the evening.

Ishaan Jagyasi — Spatial Audio & Visual Systems

Ishaan shapes the sonic and visual environment through spatialized sound and generative visuals, creating immersive audio landscapes that move through the room and respond dynamically to performance.

Brian King — Piano

Brian King is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and producer whose work spans film, television, theater, and live performance. His original scores include feature films such as LICK (available on Amazon Prime) and television projects directed by Brooke Langton. His collaborations include R.E.M., The B-52s, Indigo Girls, Michael Feinstein, NPR, Concord Jazz, and numerous film and television productions. He has also worked extensively in arts education with USC in Los Angeles and EICAR in Paris.

Lilly Patterson — Live Illustration & Generative AI

Lilly creates live illustrations on a large touch screen, with her drawings processed in real time by a generative AI system. Displayed side-by-side, her original marks and the AI’s evolving interpretation transform drawing into both visual performance and sound-generating instrument.

Alexandria Smith — Trumpet & Live Electronics

Dr. Alexandria Smith performs trumpet with custom interactive systems, exploring the relationship between body, instrument, and machine. Her performance shapes both sound and visuals, creating a responsive audiovisual environment driven by breath, motion, and data.

Ryan Baker — Guitar & Robotic Arm

Ryan performs guitar in dialogue with a visible industrial robotic arm that plays singing bowls. The robot acts as both collaborator and spectacle, transforming mechanical motion into resonant sound and expanding the concept of ensemble performance.

What You’ll Experience

• Experimental electronic and electroacoustic performance
• Multichannel spatial audio that surrounds the audience
• Live musicians interacting with generative systems
• Real-time visual processing and large-scale projection
• An intimate concert-hall setting designed for deep listening

Why Attend 

This is not a traditional concert — it’s an experience you inhabit. Sound moves through the room. Images respond to gesture. Familiar instruments feed unfamiliar systems. If you’re curious about experimental music, live audiovisual art, or the future of creative collaboration between humans and machines, this evening offers a rare opportunity to witness that dialogue unfold in real time.