His computer is like Beethoven
Florian Colombo uses AI to complete ’10NS Symphony.” As a result of listening to the Nexus Orchestra in Lausanne and Geneva.
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With a one-year delay, theNexus Orchestra It celebrates his 10th birthday and Beethoven’s 250th birthday. Despite everything, the delay would be lucrative for Florian Colombo, who was asked by Nexus and its conductor Guillaume Berney to generate an original composition by computer, but written in the Beethoven style and based on fragments of melodies drawn by the composer. Because last week, the “deep learning” specialist was still working on his software! The result will be revealed at the opening of the two concerts in Lausanne on September 2 and in Geneva on September 3, completed by Rachmaninoff and Brahms.
From “Freer Jack” to Beethoven
The person who co-founded the Lausanne Student Chamber Orchestra was happy to immerse themselves in the intricacies of artificial neural networks, the data-processing structures that today provide search engines, translation software, and music recommendations given to our tastes in broadcast programming. But the “deep learning” applied to musical writing hides even greater difficulties, because it is necessary to combine the melodic, harmonic and rhythmic model.
“I hope my instrument will allow many aficionados to approach composition with a little musical knowledge.”
“I’m a good performer, but a bad composer,” Florian Colombo admits. I am very happy to be able to switch to the composition side thanks to the AI. I hope a tool It would allow many aficionados to approach composition with little musical knowledge.” The Lausanne resident continues to play his instrument regularly, but at one point opted for the scientific stream. In March, he defended his Ph.D. at EPFL in Computational Neuroscience which enabled him to combine His passions, music and computers: “When I started my research,” said the scientist, “I was trying to teach a bass caddy that it would lead to the tune of Freer Jack.” Seven years later, I can make the computer run on all sixteen Beethoven quatrains. And the software is able, on the basis of a series of proposed strings, to develop an original sequence developed for several instruments that sounds good together.”
Lausanne, Metropolis Room
September 2 (8 p.m.)
Geneva, Victoria Hall
September 3 (8 p.m.)
Free entry without reservation. Passing Covid is mandatory.orchestrenexus.ch
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