Reeps One

Reeps One is currently part of the Experiments in Art and Technology program at Bell Labs researching creative applications for A.I. and Machine Learning. In collaboration with Bell Labs and Simon Weldon, Reeps One wrote 'We Speak Music'[1] a documentary culminating is a musical 'chess match' involving a performance with an A.I artist twin called 'Second Self'[2] performed in the internationally renowned anechoic chamber located at Bell Labs New Jersey.

By 2019, Reeps One completed his third artist residency at Harvard University[3] and is currently part of the Experiments in Art and Technology program at Bell Labs. Reeps One produces work as a response to an ongoing investigation into the evolution of the human voice, art, and technology.

In November 2018, Reeps One was a co-author to the paper 'Beatboxers and Guitarists Engage Sensorimotor Regions Selectively When Listening to the Instruments[4] published by Oxford Academic.

Reeps One has collaborated with a diverse selection of artists and institutions including Damon Albarn, Mike Patton, the University College and the United Nations. In January 2020, Reeps One directed and performed 'Voices Of Light'[5] to close the 2020 World Economic Forum annual meeting. Later that year, Yeff was asked to conduct the 30-minute closing performance of the first day of GitHub Universe. It was titled A new virtuoso: when AI is both an opponent and a collaborator and featured five pieces in which he beatboxed to and interacted with syntactic voices created by Machine learning models.[6]