Mechanical Orchestra
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This programme is held in Hungarian.
It is not every day you hear pieces by Josquin, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Liszt and Beethoven alongside songs by Queen, the Beatles, Illés and Britney Spears on the same program, all performed by a fully robotized orchestra. The Robot Organ and its “orchestra” accomplish all this at once today. It takes listeners on a journey through the history of music, 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 Music Hungary that opened in 2022, is the experimental organ of which it is no exaggeration to say that it is a true Hungarikum. Dániel Váczi developed the concept of the installation largely on the basis of ideas that György Ligeti had already envisioned in the 1960s for the organ of the future. Full computer (MIDI) controllability is in itself capable of eliciting unusual sounds, but in this unique setup the remote control also extends to parameters such as the wind pressure in the pipes and their tuning. At the same time, the Robot Organ is supported by an entire orchestra, every element of which is also controlled by computer. Among its members you can hear 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.
