The award-winning Spanish composer, singer, and experimental artist Maria Arnal creates music in the intersection between human and machine – with the help of a choir of AI-generated voices, a portable organ, and her otherworldly beautiful singing voice. Karen Juhl plays a set before.

A melody from the Middle Ages, a beat you can dance to, and a splash of artificial intelligence – these are the three ingredients in Maria Arnal’s musical universe. In April, she visits ALICE with ‘AMA’, which is the title of her latest album and a performance in which Maria Arnal explores the sovereignty of the voice in an age of AI, as well as intimacy and femininity. The result is captivating electropop melodies that draw on musical traditions while simultaneously being impossible to create without modern technology. They sound as if they were coming out of an old monastery – as well as a computer.

Maria Arnal has received numerous awards and has performed everywhere from Sónar Festival in Barcelona and a TED Talk event in Vancouver to the Romaeuropa Festival in Rome. As a composer, she has also created a sound work for the Venice Architecture Biennale, ‘AIR’, and a generative choral piece that interacts with Barcelona’s big data in real time, ‘SIRENA’. This project was a collaboration with producer John Talabot and was created for Torre Glòries, an observation tower in Barcelona. Maria Arnal explores the spaces where sound, technology, and art merge. She often performs with both a choir of AI-generated voices and a portable organ she controls from her computer. Join us at ALICEthis April and experience human and machine blending together in Maria Arnal’s polyphonic experimental pop!

Karen Juhl
Karen Juhl, a Danish experimental star, blends influences from Laurie Anderson, Solange, and M.I.A. and crafts visionary art pop. Her debut masterpiece, “Mother Tongue,” has garnered acclaim from BBC6, Metal Mag, and Groove Mag. Witness the fusion of club culture and chamber music in her live shows, where rhythmic fragments meld with MIDI harp improvisations, creating a mesmerising performance. We’re looking forward to welcoming Karen Juhl, as she returns to ALICE, opening the night for Maria Arnal.