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Music ex machina - Artificial Intelligence in Classical Music

  • KI und Musik (Working title)
All titles (3)
Documentary | 2022-2023 | WDR [de] | Music, Science | Germany

Shooting data

Start of shooting01/03/2022
End of shooting31/03/2023
Filming regionsFrance, Germany - Berlin, Germany - Lower Saxony, United Kingdom - England, West Germany

Project data

Length of movie52 min

    Brief synopsis

    Music created with the assistance of artificial intelligence is a well-established secret in the world of pop. Today, AI is also making serious inroads in the classical domain, bringing us to the threshold of a new era in classical music. From the recording of the first samples to the premiere performance at the Semperoper in Dresden, the film accompanies the creation of the opera “Chasing Waterfalls”, which was co-composed by artificial intelligence.

    We follow the AI as it reconstructs Beethoven’s 10th symphony and watch it perform with Robbie Williams, and we see how pianist Dirk Maassen at the Sony Science Lab in Paris and saxophonist Asya Fateyeva at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg interact with AI in real time, and how Spanish professor Eduardo Miranda in Plymouth is using quantum computers to create music entirely from scratch.

    Experts Kenza Ait Si Abbou and Christian Mio Loclair comment on these fascinating developments as well as the currently highly topical Chat GPT platform.

    (https://www.sounding-images.de/en/project/music-ex-machina/)

    Crew

    ActivityNameComment
    DirectorBernard Wedig
    DirectorStefan Pannen
    Sound recordist (non fiction)Tilemachos Manos
    WDR
    WDR
    Sound re-recording mixerCornelius Rapp