On April 2, 2022, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) presents renowned composer and musician Derrick Skye with Where can we go, from here?, a program exploring music as a doorway into understanding other cultures and different ways of living through healing, artificial intelligence (AI), and honoring music of diverse communities.

 

Skye is a composer and musician based in the Los Angeles area who often integrates music practices from different cultural traditions around the world into his work with classical music communities. The Los Angeles Times has described his music as “something to savor” and “enormous fun to listen to.”

Where can we go, from here? explores holistic approaches to music making, artificial intelligence, and data interpretation, ultimately searching for a unified language. Skye asks, “How can we use AI to create a model for generative music, and how can that model work with living, breathing musicians and composers to include vocabulary from a variety of musical cultures? Musically, what does that sound like?”