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Artificial Art

Human Composers vs. AI
Voltahalle, Basel
20 march 2024
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Artificial Art

Human Composers vs. AI
Voltahalle, Basel
20 march 2024
Human compositions
Classes of the Basel University of Music
AI compositions
Platons Buravickis
Visuals
Luca Scarzella, Michele Innocente
scientist
Henry Legg
20 march 2024, h. 19.30, Vltahalle, Basel

In a “game show” a human composer competes against an AI composition in five chapters. The audience listens to two versions per chapter and piece and chooses which piece was AI and which was human. The pieces are composed in the style of Bach, Chopin, Messiaen, Bartok, Brahms and are played by a human ensemble (even the ensemble does not know what is human and what is artificial intelligence). In collaboration with the composition classes of the Basel University of Music, excellent students compose the “human” part; The well-known Latvian composer Platons Buravickis “created” the AI compositions. The fascinating visual arts of Luca Scarzella and Michele Innocente (“Tinguely Entangled”) accompany the performance. The show will be moderated and complemented by scientific interludes in collaboration with the “Responsible Digital Society” research network based at the University of Basel.