Combination of human power with cutting-edge generative music technology performed by one of the most renowned drummers.

In his new project ME/MACHINE, one of the most innovative drummers Jojo Mayer combines human performance with cutting-edge generative music technology in real time, combining analogue drumming with artificial intelligence in an improvised duet where machine imitates man and man imitates machine.

Sergé „Jojo“ Mayer's career took off in the early 1980s when, at the age of 18, he landed a spot in pianist Monty Alexander's band. He went on to join the jazz-rock group Screaming Headless Torsos and the fusion band Intergalactic Maiden Ballet. In the early 1990s, Mayer moved from Europe to New York, working as a sideman for a number of different artists before forming the electronic quartet Nerve, a band where Mayer developed the idea of reverse engineering – playing machine rhythms on an acoustic drum kit.

Jojo Mayer is known for fusing jazz, drum'n'bass and jungle, and in recent decades has been heavily influenced by electronic music. ME/MACHINE is the next chapter in this love affair between man and machine, machine and man.

Mayer himself says of the new project, „The initial impetus for ME/MACHINE came during an experimental recording session with Brian Eno shortly before the pandemic broke out. I was intrigued by the implications that generative, algorithmic technologies and artificial intelligence would have for the future of music and thinking, and I thought, if I had a year off, I'd go for it.“ Jojo Mayer took a year off.

Event is promoted by Rachot Production