flight of the drone

drone
Machine learning AV performance


An unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), also known as a combat drone or simply a drone, is an unmanned aerial vehicle that typically carries ordnance such as missiles and is used to carry out aerial attacks. Such aircraft do not have a human pilot on board. These drones are usually under real-time human control, with varying degrees of autonomy. Inspired by autonomous war machines, this performance was created using imagery provided by military and government sectors to train my AI. It generates realistic drone attack imagery such as radar information and landmark video. This information is used to generate sound by a different AI to that used in my Tribute to Distler or CHIRP performances. Disturbing ambient/noise compositions are synchronised with virtual drone war scenes.