Second Self is an arts and science collaboration between Reeps One, Dada Bots and the E.A.T. program at Bell Labs created in 2018. The collaboration is a live performance piece designed to integrate machine learning and generative audio as a practical artistic tool and to raise awareness about machine learning beyond the academic, technological and engineering demographics via the medium of film. The film has been showcased at United Nations, Davos, Google Exec, Ars Electronica and more.

Forward by Jesse Damiani : Forbes, NXT Museum

“ Across much of his work at the cutting-edge of voice and technology, Harry Yeff frames a connected system of AI tools collectively as a sparring partner or workout buddy, a sort of composite machine rival through which to refine his (human) voice’s range and capability. In so doing, the artist uses AI to question the limit of his own voice, an opponent like duet and mentorship that pushes to new-voice and expression.

Already among the best beatboxers in the world, Yeff’s lines of pursuit training with machines have pushed his capabilities into realms that truly begin to sound un-, non-, or posthuman. Machine Inspired Voice is an ongoing research exploring multiple AI driven processes to develop new articulations, phraseologies, and compositions in human voice expression”