Greg Beller - Air Sampling #006 (2024) for spatial sampling in VR, performed by 

Greg Beller (VR) and Eunice Martins (piano)

17th July 2024, at Freie Universität Berlin, at symposium (Virtual) Presence!? Musical performances in hybrid spaces. 

Air sampling #006 (2024) is Greg Beller’s newest musical performance project, part

of his Air Sampling series. In these improvised performances he samples a sound

source and distributes it in space in real time.

Greg Beller works as an artist, researcher, teacher and computer designer

for the contemporary arts. Founder of the Synekine project, he invents new

musical instruments combining sound and movement, which he uses with

various performers or in computer-assisted composition. In his research, he

focuses on the relationships between gesture, movement, dance and space,

as well as between AI and the creative process.

Eunice Martins is a composer and pianist who works with experimental and

traditional materials, playing techniques and electronics. Since 2000 she is

the resident pianist of the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art. Her works

for film, silent film and live compositions were performed at international

festivals and cinematheques such as the 79th Venice Film Biennial, Le

Giornate del Cinema Muto Pordenone, Hong Kong International Film Festival.