Back in October 2025, Marco Amerotti, who leads the Somabotics Traditionable Machines project, met Laszlo Rozsa—Assistant Professor and Director of Performance in the Faculty of Art, University of Nottingham —at our LOREIC Sessions event, Reimagining Contemporary Folk with Rosie, Jamie and an AI Performer.

Laszlo, an accomplished soloist and chamber musician with an international performance career spanning the UK, Europe, North America and China, was interested in the creative possibilities of LOERIC. A conversation quickly evolved into a collaborative project aimed at pushing LOERIC in new artistic directions.

In January 2026, Marco and Laszlo organised a workshop to explore LOERIC’s capabilities. This was followed by an intensive two-day session in Stockholm, where they began adapting LOERIC into a 1600s performance. As they experimented with LOERIC’s ability to perform ornamentation and accompaniment they also created a tailored interaction for Laszlo, enabling a more intuitive and responsive musical dialogue between performer and system.

The next phase took place in May at the University of Nottingham’s Department of Music. Working in the brand-new Rehearsal Hall and making use of an impressive Steinway Spirio piano installed earlier in the year, Marco and Lazslo focused on shaping a complete performance.

Their chosen piece, Sonata Prima, Op. IX/1 by Uccellini, provided a perfect testbed. LOERIC performs the continuo (bassline and harmonic structure), while Laszlo takes the lead. The result is a compelling exploration of ornamentation, accompaniment, and expressive nuance, and pushed the boundaries of what LOERIC can achieve.

While analysis of the data is still ongoing, the collaboration has already revealed exciting possibilities. One key insight is LOERIC’s potential as a tool for investigating different performance mindsets, such as playfulness and risk-taking, and for supporting improvisatory practices central to this repertoire.

Rather than simply reproducing historical styles, LOERIC provides new ways of engaging with them, offering performers fresh perspectives on interpretation and interaction.

Marco and Laszlo are now planning more ambitious experiments as part of the Traditionable Machines project. These include translating an entire historical treatise into LOERIC and exploring what happens when multiple LOERIC systems perform together—creating a hybrid ensemble alongside a human musician.

Watch the performance in this short video, produced with the help of Richard Ramchurn, who leads the Somabotics AI Lens project.