Dark, stormy and unprecedented night for those following the Sanremo festival. The artists Morgan and Bugo respectively changed a text and abandoned the performance still in progress, resulting in the disqualification of the song.
The reasons for the argument between Morgan and Bugo lie in a strong disagreement between Morgan and the Festival orchestra. The Milanese artist had sent the musical masters a score deemed inadequate. The score of “Canzone per te,” Sergio Endrigo's 1968 piece, was full of “unlistenable parts” according to the musicians. The conflict continued in the following hours with Morgan's claim to direct the orchestra, the terrible grade expressed by the orchestra members, and Morgan's accusations of sabotage. Last act: Morgan goes on stage to sing a modified text, in which he also accuses his colleague. And the colleague dramatically abandons the stage. With Alter3 all this would not have happened.
Alter 3 is something else. With him, no argument between Morgan and Bugo
There is a conductor who would have avoided the problem. He doesn't have a tailcoat, he doesn't need sheets of paper and scores and he conducts wonderfully. His name is Alter 3, he is a robot with a humanoid face and was born for music (but he can do much more).
The cybernetic Riccardo Muti has hands and arms, and he is not afraid to use them. He gesticulates passionately, rotates and gives orders. His live performance performing Keiichiro Shibuya's opera “Scary Beauty” in the Emirate of Sharjah was a spectacle.
Shibuya, a Japanese composer, the role of robots in our life of everyday life will continue to grow, but it is up to us to decide how artificial intelligence could enrich the human experience, and how humans and androids can make art together.
“This work is a metaphor for the relationships between man and technology. Sometimes the android goes crazy, the human orchestras have to follow (Yesterday's performance on the Ariston stage confirms to me that humans go crazy more). More often, however, humans can collaborate very comfortably."he said.
Man and android don't quarrel
Shibuya wrote the music, the android controls the tempo and volume of the live show and in some cases even sings. Possibility of an argument like between Morgan and Bugo? Zero.
The lyrics of the work performed by Alter3 are based on literary texts by the American “Beat Generation” writer William Burroughs and the French author Michael Houellebecq.
The spectators? baffled
The audience who attended the performance had mixed feelings from it. “I think it's a very exciting idea – we've gotten to see what it looks like and how real such a possibility is,” said one viewer. A second audience member simply said: “a human director is much better.”
Although he is interested in artificial intelligence and foresees great discoveries, the viewer concluded about the project: “with Alter3 the human touch is no longer felt. The magical aspect has been lost."
