Commissions to Michael Brailey & Monika Dalach

FUTURE RECOGNITION is an ongoing project by Decoder Ensemble, an artistic reflection on the profound impact of AI algorithms on the future design of our world. Using analysis, introspection and speculation, it examines the profound impact of AI algorithms and their role in shaping our world: the struggle for authenticity in the face of gigantic AI storage volumes and the search for identity, beauty and physicality in a digitally driven society.

New multimedia compositions have been specially commissioned for the project, including two by young composers: Michael Brailey and Monika Dalach, made possible by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. The focus is thus on the perspective of young artists at the beginning of their careers – a generation for whom artificial intelligence has been an everyday tool from the outset. Together, the artists develop concepts that enable personal, creative access to contemporary and future topics such as AI. The result is a sophisticated concert format that, despite its diverse approaches, appears aesthetically ‘of a piece’. The nucleus for the thematic and aesthetic conception of the project is the existing composition Holo_Acid.MOV (CRYPT-File) by Alexander Schubert (2021), which plays with AI-generated texts, sounds and the visually ever-transforming, ‘glitching’ physicality of the musicians and will be further developed and adapted for the project in 3D. The young media artist Denis Polec has been commissioned for this.

The premiere of the commissioned compositions is planned for 18 May 2023 for a concert in the small hall of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, as part of the Musikfest, which is dedicated to the theme of the future this year.

Further information:
decoder-ensemble.de

Date

May 18 2025
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg