The Blackburn People’s Choir has been booked for a high-profile concert date in London.
The 80-strong acappella community choir formed in 1997 will perform at the capital’s Serpentine Gallery North on Saturday, January 18.
Under director Jeff Borradaile it will join South Lakes Acappella and Ordsall Acappella in performing songs from Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst’s AI Training Songbook.
The event at the Kensington Gardens venue which starts at noon includes a guided tour of the ‘Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst: The Call’ exhibition led by Eva Jäger, the gallery’s Arts Technologies Curator.
The choir will perform before and after the tour at 12pm and 1pm.
The gallery website says of the exhibition: “A collaboration between artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, and Serpentine Arts Technologies, The Call proposes new cultural, legal, and technical rituals for art in the age of AI.
“Centring on developing new protocols and materials for the creation of choral AI models, The Call is a spatial audio installation produced with choral AI models and field recordings trained from a newly created choral dataset.
“This immersive experience allows visitors to sing through the choral AI models.
“Like a choir, where many individual voices become a collective, the artists propose that AI can further augment the transformation from the individual to the collective.”
Blackburn People’s Choir meet at Blackburn’s Wesley Hall for its weekly rehearsal on a Thursday, from 7pm to 9.30pm.
It looks forward to welcoming new singers.
Since 1997 it has sung all over the UK and Europe to much acclaim under the musical direction of Mr Borradaile.