How Artificial Intelligence Completed Beethoven’s Unfinished Tenth Symphony
On October 9, the work will be performed in Bonn, Germany, and a recording will be released
September 24, 2021
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When Ludwig von Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his Tenth Symphony but, due to deteriorating health, wasn’t able to make much headway: All he left behind were some musical sketches.
Ever since then, Beethoven fans and musicologists have puzzled and lamented over what could have been. His notes teased at some magnificent reward, albeit one that seemed forever out of reach.
Now, thanks to the work of a team of music historians, musicologists, composers and computer scientists, Beethoven’s vision will come to life.
I presided over the artificial intelligence side of the project, leading a group of scientists at the creative A.I. startup Playform AI that taught a machine both Beethoven’s entire body of work and his creative process.
A full recording of Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony is set to be released on October 9, 2021, the same day as the world premiere performance scheduled to take place in Bonn, Germany - the culmination of a two-year-plus effort.
To read the entire article, just click here: Beethoven's 10th.
~Deut
p.s. - just FYI, Beethoven was deaf when he conducted the premier of his 9th Symphony (in 1824), so much so that the Concertmaster had to walk over to him after they finished playing it and turn him around to see the standing ovation (that he and the orchestra were receiving from the audience for their performance and, of course, for his newest and last symphony .. until now, that is
).
On October 9, the work will be performed in Bonn, Germany, and a recording will be released
September 24, 2021
When Ludwig von Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his Tenth Symphony but, due to deteriorating health, wasn’t able to make much headway: All he left behind were some musical sketches.
Ever since then, Beethoven fans and musicologists have puzzled and lamented over what could have been. His notes teased at some magnificent reward, albeit one that seemed forever out of reach.
Now, thanks to the work of a team of music historians, musicologists, composers and computer scientists, Beethoven’s vision will come to life.
I presided over the artificial intelligence side of the project, leading a group of scientists at the creative A.I. startup Playform AI that taught a machine both Beethoven’s entire body of work and his creative process.
A full recording of Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony is set to be released on October 9, 2021, the same day as the world premiere performance scheduled to take place in Bonn, Germany - the culmination of a two-year-plus effort.
To read the entire article, just click here: Beethoven's 10th.
~Deut
p.s. - just FYI, Beethoven was deaf when he conducted the premier of his 9th Symphony (in 1824), so much so that the Concertmaster had to walk over to him after they finished playing it and turn him around to see the standing ovation (that he and the orchestra were receiving from the audience for their performance and, of course, for his newest and last symphony .. until now, that is
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