Music Ex Machina

19 March 2023, 08:40 (CET): Artificial Intelligence is making serious inroads in the domain of classical music. How far will it reach? 

Music created with the assistance of artificial intelligence is a well-established secret in the world of pop. Today, AI is also making serious inroads in the classical domain, bringing us to the threshold of a new era in classical music. From the recording of the first samples to the premiere performance at the Semperoper in Dresden, the film accompanies the creation of the opera 'Chasing Waterfalls', which was co-composed by artificial intelligence. 

We follow the AI as it reconstructs Beethoven's 10th symphony and watch it perform with Robbie Williams, and we see how pianist Dirk Maassen at the Sony Science Lab in Paris and saxophonist Asya Fateyeva at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg interact with AI in real time, and how Spanish professor Eduardo Miranda in Plymouth is using quantum computers to create music entirely from scratch.

Experts Kenza Ait Si Abbou and Christian Mio Loclair comment on these fascinating developments as well as the currently highly topical Chat GPT platform.

English title Music Ex Machina
Duration 52 min
Production Company sounding images GmbH
Co-Production Company WDR
Producer Claus Wischmann
Executive Producer Christian Nurtsch-Wesener
Director Stefan Pannen
Director Bernard Wedig