Past:
Hidden Layers of Charlotte
8/09/2024 Riga
The piece "Hidden Layers of Charlotte" was premiered at SWRL 2024.
It revolves around the use of an AI-generated voice model named Charlotte, created by ElevenLabs. This voice model is highly realistic and capable of expressing various human emotions, which is also evident throughout the composition. In addition to these lifelike qualities, the composer has explored the hidden features of the model, capturing moments that wouldn't typically be associated with a human voice by feeding the model different strings of syllables and punctuation marks.
The voice model interacts with various musical materials that have been generated by a machine learning model, which the composer trained. This model takes points from a two-dimensional plane and maps them to a wide range of sound synthesis parameters, allowing for a more flexible exploration of different musical timbres. The model was built using the Fluid Corpus Manipulation toolkit.
In this piece, artificial intelligence plays a significant role in creating musical materials and phrases, while the composer guides the structure of these materials. Most of the structural events are intuitively created by the composer, emerging as if from a hidden layer within the composer herself.
music for electronics and piano
19/09/2024 Riga
The piece was performed by Rihards Plešanovs in the concert programme Electroacoustic Labyrinths, which includes music for cello, piano and electronics by contemporary composers.
Music for Organ
19/08/2024 Örebro
The performance took place in a UNM festival by Gregory Lloyd.
Musical theater performance VELNI
9.-17./08/2024 Suseja & Riga
Velni (devils) can be encountered almost everywhere. They dwell in nooks and crannies, alongside their friends in trees, ravines, estates, schools, under bridges, and at crossroads. The devil 'stirs like a whirlwind, explodes and splits, roars with a six-throated bellow.' In Latvian folk tales, as well as in the folklore and pop culture of other nations, various desires, fears, contradictions, experiences of violence, and fantasies are attributed to the devil. However, it is clear that devil stories are much more about the human than the diabolical. The fantastic permeates our everyday world.
The musical theater show Velni is a sensually impressive, performative, and visually stunning adventure, featuring archetypal characters familiar to all. It is based on a collage of motifs inspired by the archive of the LU Folklore Repository and life in the conditions of the world’s demise, as well as the works of F. Bārda, A. Brigadere, K. M. Weber, and others. The performance is a creatively free celebration of the peculiarities of folklore, brimming with vital energy and dynamic action. Instrumental and electronic music, created especially for the show, blends with familiar compositions to create a unique experience.
Live coding performance in the festival Støy på landet
19/07/2024 Trøndelag
The performance is almost live, a bit of rehearsed coding. Inspiration for this performance comes from a website, 973-eht-namuh-973.com. All the musical and visual parameters in the performance aim to achieve a feeling similar to that of this website. This website features a seemingly infinite number of never-ending pages with magic words and theories, where messages from divine beings are reported through specific combinations of letters. Alise will take into account the rather algorithmic nature of the texts found on the website. Both the visual presentation and small samples of voices are not meant to create any kind of narrative. Instead, they are clippings and words without apparent context, interwoven with the syntax of the code.
Lauka galā
16/09/2023 Valmiera
The piece Lauka galā [2023] was premiered in Sansusi night in Valmiera by Armands Siliņš and Reinis Tomiņš.
The text of the piece is based on several Latvian folk tales in which encounters between humans and the devil occur. In many fairy tales, the devil is the one who appears to people on his own, but often, it is the person who seeks out the mythical abode of the devil, a place whose location is revealed only at special moments. The piece examines this specific circumstance - the location of the devil's abode and its appearance.
The piece was created with the support of Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia.
Performance at Skaņu Mežs
9/09/2023 Riga
Photo:Elīna Matvejeva
The performance took place in annual White Night contemporary culture forum.
ordin
11/06/2023 Riga
Premiere of a piece ordin by trio Metamorfoze.
The ability to "predict" the course of events in the immediate future unveils itself in diverse contexts. These principles are of profound significance even when we immerse ourselves in the realm of music. Often, as listeners, we find ourselves experiencing emotional reactions, be they unexpected or precisely aligned with our anticipation. Whether it be the interruption of a cadence, the continuation of a familiar one, or the deliberate departure from classical forms within the music of the 19th century composers – each instance holds the power to surprise and captivate.
This capacity to foresee the next sequence of events frequently extends beyond our appreciation of art and becomes a survival instinct. When, for instance, a heavy object hurtles in my direction, I instinctively take evasive action, preempting a potential collision seconds before it materializes.
However, there are moments when my predictions prove fallible. I've survived encounters with unpleasant events even before their occurrence, sensing their impending arrival even in instances where they might never transpire at all.
Reflecting upon the familiarity of this human condition offers us a profound glimpse into the lenses through which I interpret the world and the events that unfold around me. It is this very insight that I endeavor to convey to potential listeners.
The piece was created with the support of AKKA/LAA
Photo: Rene Jakobson
Blue Moon Station
30/05/2023 Tallinn
Premiere of a piece Blue Moon Station by Ensemble of the Estonian Electronic Music Society. The piece is made as a musical game taking inspiration from games such as PaRappa the Rapper and Crash Bash. The story of this game takes place in the interdimensional mass transit terminal "Blue Moon Station". In the game, the performers are six intergalactic travelers who are competing to win a free ticket to the nearest galaxy - Cygnus A.
The piece was created with the support of Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia.
Concert Flaics Plesanovs Rancāne | Lapa uz lapas
12/04/2023 Riga
In the contemporary art exhibition hall TUR pianist Roberts Flaics together with composer Alise Rancāne and pianist Rihards Plešanovs interacted musically with the installation "Lapa uz lapas" by artist Maija Kurševa.
Photo: Eva Vēvere
Music for the installation Architect of the changing universe by artist Eva Vēvere
2023 Latvia, Norway
Art centre NOASS together with art studio Fargefabrikken (NO), is creating a travelling exhibition of contemporary art for children and youth.
“Architect of the Changing Universe” is an interactive installation which presents art through play by visual artist Eva Vēvere with the soundtrack by Alise Rancāne.
music for organ
21/03/2023 Riga
Performance of a piece music for organ by Aigars Reinis. The piece was created as part of the project Doms iedvesmo when the premiere of 15 new composers' compositions were premiered in the Riga Cathedral.
The composer created the music for the organ, inspired by the harmonic structures of J.S. Bach's organ music and the special acoustics of Riga Cathedral. In the process of creating a piece the composer was very much aware of the characteristics of the specific space and instrument - each subsequent musical activity in the piece is a desire to immerse oneself in ever new timbral-acoustic events.
Photo: Oskars Upenieks
ars magna
16/02/2023 Riga
Performance of a piece ars magna by Rūdolfs Bacāns and Alise Rancāne.
The title of the piece comes from the work Ars Magna by Raimund Llull (1232 – 1315/16). Llull is a medieval philosopher and mystic who sought to algorithmize the truths of Christian philosophy, thereby converting unbelievers and interlocutors of all faiths to the Christianity. Nowadays he is well known as the founder of computation theory.
In the piece, the composer works with some of those algorithms arriving at such revelations as the truth is true and the truth is not false. In the piece, thes erevelations work in contrast with the madrigal Beltà poi che t’assenti text by Carlo Gesualdo (1566 – 1613). Gesualdo is known not only as a extraordinary composer, but also as the murderer of his beloved woman and her lover. The madrigal text used in the piece is one of the examples where Gesualdo focused on the contemplations of tormented love. The musical means of expression of the piece are subordinated to the text, where algorithmic truths alternate with hard-hearted musical sections.
How To Lose a State
2023 Riga
Creation of the musical score for the play How To Lose a State directed by Toms Treinis
From the description of the play:
The occupation of Latvia and the highly dubious actions of Latvian statesmen during June of 1940 is the darkest page of Latvian history. In the center of it all is the self-proclaimed leader Kārlis Ulmanis. His personality still stirs up discussions, and attracts radical opinions– some still criticize him while others worship him. But what really happened? Would it have been possible for Latvia to remain independent if the leader Ulmanis would have made different decisions?
Electronic music performance in the festival Die Biest
03/12/2022 Nuremberg
five subjects
22/11/2022 Kaunas
The piece five subjects was premiered at festival Baltic Music Days 2022 by the electronic music ensemble EMA.
The piece is taking its inspiration from sounds of the nature which come to be the main material in the piece.
Talk with a composer Alise Rancāne
10/11/2022 Riga
An event organized by the Latvian Composers' Union Tuvplāns where different latvian composers talk about their music and ideas. Moderator of the evening Dāvis Eņģelis.
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03/09/2022 Riga
The event takes place at annual modern culture forum White Night
Sound installation Evening in the nursery
14/05/2022 Tukums
The sound installation was made as part of the Museum Night at Durbe Manor.