Have you
ever want someone
back alive?
My 'fake email' to the dead composer.
Mine is the artist who composed the most challenging repertoire for all entire flutists named Jaque Ibert. The piece 'Concerto for flute and orchestra' is really hard and took lots of effort to play beautifully. During my practice session, right before my private class, my disillusionment with this piece drives me to write the 'fake email' to the creator of this masterpiece, Mr.Ibert, to let go of my nerves. Of course he will never wrote back but it quite makes me feel relieved.
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And since this piece is the high standard repertoire which being used in most of the important occasion, such as an audition to professional orchestras or playing for an exam or graduate recital. I starts to wonder how great would it be if the composer is still alive to help us clarify all the passages or even write the program note by himself. That would help us in a lot of ways.
Speaking of clarify, there is a piece called 'Density 21.5' by Edgard Varesse. The score looks alike our contemporary music nowadays which leads to many of interpretation. The recording of this piece played by many professional flutists all around the world are having nothing in common in interpreting this piece. I even took it to a master class myself and the professor interpret the piece differently from my instructor nor the video in Youtube. So my need to have this dead composer back alive to clarify what he wants on the piece was very much stronger at that time.
Master class with Mr. Roberto Alvarez.
These situations lead to my curiosity. What if all dead composers can be back alive?
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Of course not, they won't, but my curiosity still. These are the topics:
1. What will they do? What will they say? What will they looked like?
2. What things currents people would like to ask/talk to them?
To answer these questions I think the interview and the artificial intelligence (AI) can help.
Why AI?
It happened during the symposium week where I found the contemporary music that hits right to my soul. Some of them might be boring but also, some of them connected to the feeling I've never received from any earlier classical pieces. Somes even resonate with my heart, making me scared to death, or make me laugh. Somes had made me imagine some scenery where I’ve never seen it in real life or even a situation I've never faced before. Some contemporary pieces made it impossible to breathe during the live show even though I didn't understand it.
The Show that impressed me a lot is the piece called Shrimps/Raptors (2023) by Piyawat Louilarpprasert, performed by TACETI Ensemble at a PGVIM Symposium 2023, 26 August 2023 7 p.m.. It was very amusing at the first 2 sections but it ends in very scary robotic sounds. The AI speaks in a lower and lower voice until its bass is like a broken horror robot in movies or games. Me, who’s very scared of animatronic things, enjoy this piece very much even the end of it makes me almost get out of the hall. That part makes me impressed how a show can affect the audience this much and I trust that I’m not the only one.
Shrimps/Raptors (2023) by Piyawat Louilarpprasert
When the symposium ends, the feelings still. I found some interesting work on the internet from the instagram account named “nouses_kou”. He\She described it as nature and technology. They generate video processing and sound from data. The video is the motion of the sea wave generated with AI and they produce sound of human voices which I need to say again that I feel connected to this kind of work for some reason that I don’t know too.
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​Of all those curiosities and inspirations above, I decided to put the concept of 'What if dead composers can be back alive by the help of AI' to my graduate recital topic which will held between April - June 2024. Please keep an eye on!
nature and technology by nouses_kou
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