EMBODIED EMOTION live performance by Gadi Sassoon

On September 12th, composer and transmedia artist Gadi Sassoon inaugurates his first solo exhibition, Embodied Emotion, with a performance in the art’otel London Hoxton Panorama on the 24th floor. Acoustic piano, violin, guitar, drums and Buchla synthesiser will be amplified by the 555n Construct, Sassoon’s personal machine intelligence. Showcasing the interplay between instrumental improvisation and frontier technology that underpins Sassoon’s practice, the performance offers a window into the process behind the artworks on display in the art’otel London Hoxton Gallery. A guided tour of the exhibition with the artist will follow the performance. Gadi Sassoon Gadi Sassoon is a classically trained composer and transmedia artist from Milan whose work spans recorded music, live performance and installation art. Working with traditional instruments, agentic systems and bespoke robotics, he creates deep listening experiences, immersive visuals and embodied artworks centred on his research in emotional sovereignty and machine-amplified creativity. His work has been presented at festivals, research institutions and galleries worldwide, including Sónar, MUTEK, IRCAM, Stanford's CCRMA and Montreal's Society for Art and Technology, and at the Opening Ceremony of the United Nations global AI Governance Summit, where he shared the stage with the UN Secretary-General and heads of state, the latest in a series of UN appearances as a performer and speaker. Across three albums, most recently Modes of Vibration, he has worked with physicists and mathematicians on live orchestras, sound synthesis and algorithmically modelled "impossible instruments." He recently collaborated with Reeps One on Fusion, a piece for the Leipzig Ballet and Opera widely billed as the first AI-based ballet. For over a decade, he has been published by Just Isn't Music, the publishing arm of London's Ninja Tune, producing critically acclaimed records and soundtracks. As 555n he creates a human-AI hybrid construct spanning music, performance, art, film, code and robotics. An independent researcher, his work on physical modelling and the amplification of human creativity has appeared in the MIT Computer Music Journal, MIT Technology Review and Harvard Business Review, with current research under peer review.