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PERFORMANCE OF CELLOS, ROBOTICS, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Annually in April
Festivals and Events
Visual arts, design and multimedia
Emerging music
Entertainment
Take in the futuristic sounds of music performed by robotics and composed by an artificially intelligent neural network.
© Guillaume Bell
© Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
© Myriam Ménard

Address

Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]
1201 Saint-Laurent Blvd.
Montréal, QC
H2X 2S6
Saint-Laurent
Downtown - Quartier des spectacles
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Schedule

Apr 26 to 30, 2022: Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, 7 p.m.

Price

Free activities and Fees for activities

website 514-844-2033 email

Over the last several decades science fiction has taught us to question if robots or AI will ever really think or feel like humans do. Fiction is about to become fact, at least musically, as we are immersed in a thought-provoking audio visual installation and performance piece. 

Developed by Montreal Life Support and Woulg, this performance presents cellos, locked in the metallic appendages of three bespoke, robotic structures designed to support and autonomously play the cellos. These robotics will be controlled by a custom artificially intelligent neural network, designed to compose and perform for its audience to justify its existence.

 

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