Read the Coverage Highlights from 2020 Berggruen Prize Announcement

We are pleased to share the articles below announcing Dr. Paul Farmer as the 2020 Berggruen Prize laureate:

BBC UK: Newshour

The New York Times: Paul Farmer Is Awarded the $1 Million Berggruen Prize

Forbes: The ‘Man Who Would Cure The World’ Wins Million Dollar Award

NPR Goats & Soda: Dr. Paul Farmer Was Surprised To Get A Million Dollar ‘Philosophy’ Prize

Miami Herald: Dr. Paul Farmer, who expanded health care in Haiti and Rwanda, wins prestigious Berggruen Prize

The Boston Globe: Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health, wins $1 million Berggruen Prize

The New York Times: Weekly Health Quiz: Covid Vaccines, Winter Sports and a Cancer Breakthrough

Science Magazine: Rethinking Health And Human Rights

Becker’s Hospital Review: Dr. Paul Farmer wins $1M Berggruen prize

Health Leaders Media: Paul Farmer, Md, Was Surprised to Get a $1M ‘Philosophy’ Prize

Harvard Gazette: Rethinking health and human rights

Penn Today (Univ. of Pennsylvania): Paul Farmer is awarded the $1 million Berggruen Prize

Health Newspoint: Paul Farmer Is Awarded the $1 Million Berggruen Prize

Library Journal: Health Equity Advocate and Author Paul Farmer Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize | Book Pulse

Chronicle of Philanthropy (NYT pickup): Philanthropy Today

Health Leaders Media (NPR pickup): Paul Farmer, Md, Was Surprised to Get a $1M ‘Philosophy’ Prize

WFDD (NPR pickup): A Million Dollar Prize For A Doc Who Believes In ‘Accompaniment’

Georgia Public Broadcasting (NPR pickup):  A Million Dollar Prize For A Doc Who Believes In ‘Accompaniment’

KUOW (NPR pickup): A Million Dollar Prize For A Doc Who Believes In ‘Accompaniment’

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NCPR (NPR pickup): A Million Dollar Prize For A Doc Who Believes In ‘Accompaniment’

Boise State Public Radio (NPR pickup): A Million Dollar Prize For A Doc Who Believes In ‘Accompaniment’

Harvard Medical: Rethinking Health and Human Rights

WRVO (NPR pickup): A Million Dollar Prize For A Doc Who Believes In ‘Accompaniment’

HPPR (NPR pickup):   A Million Dollar Prize For A Doc Who Believes In ‘Accompaniment’

WSIU (NPR pickup): A Million Dollar Prize For A Doc Who Believes In ‘Accompaniment’

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composed by Arswain
machine learning consultation by Anna Tskhovrebov
commissioned by the Berggruen Institute
premiered at the Bradbury Building
downtown Los Angeles
april 22, 2022

Human perception of what sounds “beautiful” is necessarily biased and exclusive. If we are to truly expand our hearing apparatus, and thus our notion of beauty, we must not only shed preconceived sonic associations but also invite creative participation from beings non-human and non-living. We must also begin to cede creative control away from ourselves and toward such beings by encouraging them to exercise their own standards of beauty and collaborate with each other.

Movement I: Alarm Call
‘Alarm Call’ is a long-form composition and sound collage that juxtaposes, combines, and manipulates alarm calls from various human, non-human, and non-living beings. Evolutionary biologists understand the alarm call to be an altruistic behavior between species, who, by warning others of danger, place themselves by instinct in a broader system of belonging. The piece poses the question: how might we hear better to broaden and enhance our sense of belonging in the universe? Might we behave more altruistically if we better heed the calls of – and call out to – non-human beings?

Using granular synthesis, biofeedback, and algorithmic modulation, I fold the human alarm call – the siren – into non-human alarm calls, generating novel “inter-being” sonic collaborations with increasing sophistication and complexity. 

Movement II: A.I.-Truism
A synthesizer piece co-written with an AI in the style of Vangelis’s Blade Runner score, to pay homage to the space of the Bradbury Building.

Movement III: Alarmism
A machine learning model “learns” A.I.Truism and recreates Alarm Call, generating an original fusion of the two.

Movement IV: A.I. Call
A machine learning model “learns” Alarm Call and recreates A.I.Truism, generating an original fusion of the two.


RAVE (IRCAM 2021) https://github.com/acids-ircam/RAVE