Film "The Future of Music" with Michael Wollny & Kit Armstrong

Can an artificial intelligence capture the magic of music? Can it improvise like Michael Wollny or play with virtuosity like Kit Armstrong? The film "The Future of Music" embarks on a fascinating journey to the interface of art, science and philosophy. 

Music is more than just notes - it is emotion, intuition and creativity. But what happens when machines simulate these human attributes? When they play music so well that nobody can hear the difference? Is this the future of music - AI that makes us believe it plays with real emotion? 

The documentary accompanies two exceptional pianists in their search for answers: Wollny, who is developing an AI to improvise with him, and Armstrong, who is researching whether machines can understand and reproduce human musicality. Both are not only exploring the limits of their art, but are also working on making machines more creative themselves. In revealing experiments, a dialogue between man and machine emerges in which the boundaries between intuitive play and algorithmic precision become blurred. 

The film discusses the big questions of our time: What remains when machines imitate human abilities? What makes an artist unique? And what do we learn about ourselves when we make music with artificial partners? A film that unites science and emotion, shot where music, technology and inventiveness merge: from Taiwan, Paris to Lausanne, in leading European research laboratories. The future of music - it starts now. 

"The Future of Music" available online on Arte.

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