Ars Electronica Festival · 2025
Bla Blavatar vs Jaap Blonk
🏆 Award of Distinction · Prix Ars Electronica 2025
Jonathan Chaim Reus's “Bla Blavatar vs Jaap Blonk” was honoured with an Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica 2025, category Digital Musics & Sound Art.
Bla Blavatar vs Jaap Blonk is a collaboration between Jonathan Chaim Reus and Jaap Blonk that brings the vocal labor behind AI voice models to the stage. In live dataset-making performances, Blonk engages in a vocal battle with his AI-generated voice clone, the Bla Blavatar , performed by Reus.
About Jonathan Chaim Reus
Jonathan Reus (US/NL) is a musician who explores embodiment, tradition , and progress in the human-technology relationship. With formal training in electronic music, mathematics , and science, he is known for building self-made hard and soft technologies that…
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