Tempi agitati
We are tackling the still intractable dissimilarity between man and his robotic double.
Both human and machine are affected by insensitivity. In the history of failures of artificial intelligence, the ignorance of human emotional processes and their role in cognitive learning has led to a stalemate. Intelligence is not a rational process; it is shaped by emotions and by the desire for exchanges. This is why our domestic robots have big eyes. It is also why all musical works of worth exceed the pure
combination of notes and compose our emotions.
In Tempi Agitati, Katharina Rosenberger (1971) delves deep into our internal unrest. Borrowing from the authors of the Renaissance, Adrian Willaert and his student Cipriano de Rore, and from this historical moment where music swings from polyphonic impassivity to madrigalism expressing the most complex feelings, she has created a remarkable vocal fresco which we discover for the first time in Switzerland as performed by the unrivalled Neue Vocalsolisten from Stuttgart (21 March, Maison de paroisse de Saint-Gervais).
Marc Texier - director of Archipel
