Mechanical Orchestra
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Mechanical Orchestra
This programme is held 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 in a single repertoire, all performed 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 opened in 2022, is the experimental organ for which it is no exaggeration to say that it is a true Hungaricum. Dániel Váczi developed the installation’s concept largely on the basis of ideas that György Ligeti envisioned back in the 1960s for the organ of the future. Full computer (MIDI) controllability alone is capable of eliciting unusual sounds, but here remote control uniquely extends to parameters such as the wind pressure in 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 you can hear drums, marimba, accordion, upright piano, and glockenspiel.
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.
Rock Troubadours (US, 70s): CSNY, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Roy Harper
