Performers
Accompanying programme
Kit Armstrong, Michael Wollny and Dr Martin Rohrmeier in conversation
Free admission, entry with ticket for the evening concert
What artistic, innovative and expressive possibilities arise from the creative interaction between humans and machines, particularly in the field of music? Michael Wollny is one person who has been exploring this topic for some time. The jazz pianist has collaborated with artificial intelligence in the form of his imaginary partner, LARS (Listen, Act, React, Silence), at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. He found an ally in Prof. Dr. Martin Rohrmeier, head of the Chair of Digital and Cognitive Musicology, with whom he developed the AI-controlled grand piano LARS. The tech-savvy, ever-curious pianist Kit Armstrong is also interested in such visionary projects. Through their collaboration with the AI-controlled grand piano LARS, Wollny and Armstrong explore the tension between classical music and jazz, improvisation and interpretation, inspiration and algorithms, and humans and machines.
