Ex Machina
Piano in an AI World
Visual Art by Xuan
A visually immersive program of nine world premieres written for the piano, including two genre-crossing new works
EX MACHINA is a multimedia project exploring the evolving relationship between humanity and technology through immersive visual art and music. Centered around the piano—a machine of sound and expression—it reflects on how technology shapes both artistic experience and human identity. The project invites audiences to rethink the boundaries between human and machine, using music to explore the machine as both an artistic medium and a philosophical idea.
Collaborators
Program
Clara Yang, piano
Immersive visual art by Xuan
Act I
Fractal Pulse
Crystal Prelude No. 1 with
Cryoacoustic Orb Sound Installation
(piano and fixed media)
Reena Esmail, composer
Lee Weisert and Jonathon Kirk, sound installation designers
Clinamina (piano and electronics)
Lee Weisert, composer
Etude No. 11 (solo piano)
Philip Glass, composer
Deep ConditioNN Redux (piano and fixed media)
Suzi Analogue, beatmaker
Clara Yang, composer/piano
Act II
Synthetic Souls
Nebula (solo piano)
Clara Yang, composer/piano
RoboDream (piano and body movement art)
Phil Young, composer
Yili Fan, movement artist
Hammers Over the Moon (piano and fixed media)
Liliya Ugay, composer
Conception (piano and fixed media)
Yvette Young, composer/producer/electric guitar/violin
Clara Yang, composer/piano
Act III
Organic Machines
Analogue Confessions (solo piano)
Peter Askim, composer
Think that's you - personality recognition software toccata (piano and electronics)
Allen Anderson, composer
Drones (solo piano)
Stephen Anderson, composer
Postlude
Hoyt-Schermerhorn (piano and electronics)
Christopher Cerrone, composer
Total running time: approx. 70 min
Program could be modified for shorter durations, and it could be performed with piano only, one projector with piano, or immersive projection with piano
