The BSO Premieres a Tod Machover Piece With a Live AI System in the Orchestra
Kent Nagano conducts the world premiere of already and not yet, a BSO commission, Oct. 22–24 at Symphony Hall.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra plays the world premiere of Tod Machover’s already and not yet next week at Symphony Hall. According to the BSO, the piece “incorporates a live AI system that collaborates with each BSO musician,” linking and blending the players across the orchestra. Machover describes it as a “possible, positive vision” for the future of democracy.
It’s a BSO commission, made under music director Andris Nelsons with support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s New Works Fund, and it’s part of the orchestra’s Technology and Our Humanity series. Kent Nagano conducts.
The program
- Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave)
- Tod Machover: already and not yet (world premiere)
- Alex Nante: Ein feste Burg (U.S. premiere)
- Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, Reformation
When
- Thursday, Oct. 22, 7:30 PM
- Friday, Oct. 23, 1:30 PM, with a pre-concert talk at 12:15
- Saturday, Oct. 24, 8 PM, with a pre-concert talk with George Lewis and Tod Machover at 6:30 in the Cabot-Cahners Room
More concerts are on the live music page.
Sources: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
