Reflect
An encounter between an algorithmic entity and a human orchester.
How much algorithmic patterns can we find in organic music? To what degree does an orchestral performance resemble a mechanic logic? Is a digital entity capable of emotional expression and subtlety? The concert installation REFLECT explores the possibilities of artistic communication between man and machine.
A digital entity is embodied in a non-anthropomorphic light, screen and mirror arrangement as an observer, interpreter and virtual conductor. The machine’s ability to analyse, understand and even augment orchestral music in real time as well as creatively change and interact with its surrounding space, blurs the boundaries and challenges established automatisms of a classical concert performance.
Credits:
A cooperation between Kammerakademie Potsdam, Xenorama and Waschhaus Potsdam
Music & Sound Performance: Xenorama & Kammerakademie Potsdam
Art Direction & Visuals & Scenography: Xenorama
Conducting & Musical Arrangement: Miguel Pérez Iñesta
Concertmaster: Yuki Kasai
Tonmeister: Justus Beyer
Musical Dramaturgy: Ursula Suwelack, Miguel Pérez Iñesta, Xenorama
Executive Production: Kammerakademie Potsdam, Waschhaus Potsdam, Xenorama
Lighting & Rigging: Sven Kappert, Mateo Ziethen, Waschhaus Potsdam
Camera & Documentation: Falco Seliger
Additional Equipment: Trollwerk Production
Special Thanks to Matti Thölert, Gustav Haese, Gitty Oeckel
Commissioned by: Exzellente Orchesterlandschaft Deutschland, NEUSTART KULTUR