When the Daft Punk announced the end of the duo, many experienced it as a heartbreak. Nevertheless, Thomas Bangalter explains that it was inevitable.
“Daft Punk was a project where reality and fiction were blurred thanks to these two robot characters. […] It was an exploration, I would say, that started with the machines and continued beyond them. I love technology as a tool, but I’m somehow horrified by the nature of the relationship between machines and ourselves,” said half of the duo he formed with Guy-Manuel de Homen-Christo to the BBC.
The Shadow of AI
When artificial intelligence takes precedence over man, and where even personalities ready for all extremes like Elon Musk worry regarding it, it was time to put people back at the heart of the story. Besides, those who thought that Daft Punk were an ode to technology were wrong.
“We tried to use these machines to express something extremely emotional, which a machine cannot feel, unlike a human. We have always been on the side of humanity, not technology. As much as I love this character, but the last thing I want to be, in the world we live in in 2023, is a robot,” added Thomas Bangalter.
As proof, since the end of Daft Punk, the musician has composed the ballet music Mythologies by Angelin Preljocaj.
