2024-10-12 22:08:00
The Dresden Symphony Orchestra made music history and was conducted by a robot for the first time. Strictly speaking, it was a mechanical maestro with three arms that could set different tempos for individual groups in the orchestra. At the premiere of the “Robot.Sinfonie” program on Saturday, technology and musicians ran like clockwork in Dresden’s Festspielhaus Hellerau. The audience was enthusiastic and applauded loudly.
Symphony director Markus Rindt was able to recruit specialists from the Technical University of Dresden for the project. In the CeTI (Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop) Cluster of Excellence, the conductor machine “learned” how to beat beats and display dynamics. “We do not aim to replace conductors in the future,” said Rindt. But they want to break new ground and try out what can happen with a conductor at the podium.
At the premiere, the robot conducted two premieres – the piece “#kreuzknot” by Wieland Reissmann and “Semiconductor’s Masterpiece” by Andreas Gundlach. Other works of the evening were conducted by a “real” conductor, the Norwegian Magnus Loddgard. The robot dog Spot from Boston Dynamics also made an appearance. The Dresden Symphony Orchestra also celebrated its 25th anniversary with the concert.
The ensemble is made up of musicians from several orchestras at home and abroad and is committed exclusively to contemporary music. The projects often also dealt with political issues. In 2017, for example, the symphony musicians protested musically against the wall planned by then US President Donald Trump with a concert on the border between Mexico and the USA. In 2013, the symphony musicians performed the “Symphony for Palestine” with Arab colleagues in the West Bank.
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