In this talk Vicky will share her current research and experiments in building her sonic training dataset for upcoming AURAMACHINE AI composition. Working with sonic fragments, the talk will reflect on concrete transmutation techniques and the real-imaginary effects on the materiality or AURA of an object through neural synthesis. Vicky is artist in residence at NOVARS, University of Manchester exploring musique concrete and machine learning. The residency is in collaboration with PRiSM, Royal Northern College of Music where she is experimenting with the PRiSM SampleRNN algorithm.