Mechanical Orchestra
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Mechanical Orchestra
This programme is held in Hungarian.
It’s not every day you hear pieces by Josquin, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Liszt, and Beethoven alongside songs by Queen, the Beatles, Illés, and Britney Spears all in one repertoire, performed entirely by a fully robotized orchestra. The Robot Organ and its “orchestra” accomplish all of this at once today. It takes listeners on a journey through music history, after Dániel Váczi arranged the most significant musical compositions of several centuries for instruments that are controlled by computer but sound completely acoustically.
The jewel of the Creative Sound Space, a venue of the House of Hungarian Music that opened in 2022, is the experimental organ about which it is no exaggeration to say that it is a true Hungaricum. The concept of the installation was developed by Dániel Váczi largely on the basis of ideas that György Ligeti had already envisioned in the 1960s for the organ of the future. The fully computer-based (MIDI) controllability is in itself capable of eliciting unusual sounds, but here the remote control uniquely extends to parameters such as the wind pressure of the pipes or their tuning. At the same time, the Robot Organ is supported by a whole orchestra, every element of which is also controlled by computer. Among its members are drums, marimba, accordion, upright piano, and glockenspiel.
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The crown jewel of the House of Music's Creative Sound Space, which opened in 2022, is an experimental organ that can truly be called a Hungarian treasure. Dániel Váczi developed the concept for the installation largely based on ideas that György Ligeti had already envisioned for the organ of the future in the 1960s.
