Issue 11/2025 - Focus "AI"

Table of contents
Focus
Statistics will never lead to something like composition
Interview with the composer, music and media scientist Michael Harenberg and an artificial intelligence
AI as a creative partner
With their artistic projects, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst are looking for ways to retain control over their own creative work.
The time is ripe for the AI artist
The enormous advances in technology require a new self-image on the part of music creators
AI recognizes Mozart's facial features
(italics = summary in German of the original French article)
Critiques
New releases Books, Sound carrier, Websites, Notes, Movies
Echo
There is not enough space in the printed edition for all the texts, so they are listed here and linked to the corresponding online articles. Most of these were published before the printed edition appeared.
A sense of sound, historical awareness and a farewell
Francesco Piemontesi
About money and the world
The podcasts from Aeneas Humm and the Árvore Foundation
Un lien indéfectible avec la Suisse
Nicolas Dorin and Pierre-Michel Menger talk about Pierre Boulez.
First season with Esther Hoppe
The violinist took over as artistic director of the Camerata Zürich a few weeks ago.
Bells on instruments and mouths
Thilo Hirsch and the Ensemble Arcimboldo teamed up for the project rough and tumble 2025-1898 together with a school class.
A mythical creature explores folk music instruments
The Musikkollegium Winterthur presented Barboza and the ringing tree by Howard Griffiths.
In the labyrinth of labyrinths
Donaueschingen Music Days 2025
Base
Articles and news from the music associations
Swiss Federal Orchestra Association (EOV) / Société Fédérale des Orchestres (SFO)
Konferenz Musikhochschulen Schweiz (KMHS) / Conférence des Hautes Ecoles de Musique Suisse (CHEMS)
Kalaidos University of Music / Kalaidos Haute École de Musique
Swiss Music Council (SMR) / Conseil Suisse de la Musique (CSM)
Swissmedmusica (SMM) / Association suisse de Médecine de la Musique (SMM)
Swiss Musicological Society (SMG) / Société Suisse de Musicologie (SSM)
Swiss Musicians' Association (SMV) / Union Suisse des Artistes Musiciens (USDAM)
Schweizerischer Musikpädagogischer Verband (SMPV) / Société Suisse de Pédagogie Musicale (SSPM)
SONART - Musicians Switzerland
Swiss Youth Music Competition Foundation (SJMW)
SUISA - Cooperative Society of Authors and Publishers of Music
Swiss Association of Music Schools (VMS) / Association Suisse des Écoles de Musique (ASEM)
Baroque AI
Puzzle by Michael Kube
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