We’re surrounded by invisible technological systems where machine learning and covert algorithms shape our everyday lives. At the heart of these systems is Latent Space, a data dimension in a state of flux, where material becomes data, past meets future, and new machine languages emerge. How do we imagine these spaces? What do they sound like?

Latent Spaces is a sound installation that invites the audience to step inside the Aura Machine – an imaginary computational model combining spatial audio, sculpture and digital objects. Once inside the machine, experience a materiality in flow, where sonic echoes of past technological eras emerge, morph and fall apart.

Audiences will be immersed in the emerging machine language through an industrial soundscape of Manchester mill sounds, cotton machinery from Quarry Bank MIll, and the material sounds of electricity, glass and metal. These sounds – field recordings captured by the artist – make up the machine’s dataset, used to train an early lo-fi neural synthesis model called PRiSM SampleRNN, now itself a historical relic.

Occupying a heritage textile building, the work layers a virtual, imaginary space over a real, physical space of industry.

Latent Spaces is a 20 min sound installation that runs every half an hour. Tickets are free but booking is essential due to limited capacity in Seesaw Basement.

6.30pm: Bar opens

7pm: Latent Spaces: Showing 1

7.30pm: Q&A with Sound & Music UK & Vicky Clarke

8pm: Latent Spaces: Showing 2

8.30pm Latent Spaces: Showing 3