Adi Gelbart & Kammerensemble Neue Musik: Poems by Alpha
The multimedia artist and programmer Adi Gelbart intermingles jazz, library music, musique concrète, weird rock music and even weirder synthesizer sounds to humorously pursue essential questions: How can creativity be defined when man and machine are inextricably united? What if computers take over? For this purpose the human musician Gelbart works with a poetry writing machine called Alpha. Rather than trying to pass for human, Alpha is designed to do as poorly as possible on a Turing test. Together with the string quartet of the KNM, Gelbart will interpret Alpha’s poems in a concert for strings, speech synthesis and electronics. The soulful and multi-layered music is meant to build a bridge between the computerized artist and the human audience. The world premiere of this piece takes up Gelbart’s novel Egglike, which has a soundtrack with lyrics written by Alpha.
Poems by Alpha (2020)
Composition: Adi Gelbart, poems: Alpha
String quartet of the Kammerensemble Neue Musik:
Theodor Flindell, violin
Josa Gerhard, violin
Kristin Maria Pientka, viola
Cosima Gerhard, cello
Matthew Herbert + s t a r g a z e: Alone
Performed by Mayah Kadish, violin
“Be embraced, you millions!?” As if! Instead, Beethoven year 2020 became one of physical and social (self) isolation. Even before lockdowns and quarantines, however, electronic musician Matthew Herbert and the s t a r g a z e orchestra had countered the composer’s iconic work with an updated interpretation called Beethoven NEIN! For The Disappearance of Music, violinist Mayah Kadish performs the first movement of the Ninth Symphony Alone, just as the title promises. The orchestra is only represented by samples, which, according to an arrangement by André de Ridder, accompany Kadish as she rises from first to the only violin.
Beethoven NEIN! (2020) First movement for solo violin, sampler, loop station
Mayah Kadish, violin
André de Ridder, arrangement
Matthew Herbert, electronics
s t a r g a z e, sample recordings
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