HIDALGO
WHO ARE YOU

SONG LAB WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Is there such a thing as the perfect concert? We ask ourselves this question in our song lab “Who Are You” at Microsoft headquarters. Our artists allow themselves to be optimized by artificial intelligence. Using gesture and facial recognition, the AI analyzes our musicians for “mistakes”—and corrects them with impulses, visuals and sound. A confrontational musical performance between human and machine. The result is open.

ARTISTIC DIRECTION & COMPOSITION Jonas Urbat, Paul Bießmann
SCENIC DESIGN Gineke Pranger
ARRANGEMENTS Christopher Barritt
MACHINE LEARNING Xiaoxiong Lin
LIGHT DESIGN Felix Katzung, Thomas Lautenschlager
FOH-SOUND ENGINEERING Ada Binaj, Magnus Lind

VOCALS Theresa Pilsl
VIOLIN Felix Key Weber
VIOLA Katherine Barritt
CELLO Jakob Roters

PROJECT MANAGEMENT Paul Ebert

A HIDALGO KOLLEKTIV PRODUCTION

Get-together with the HIDALGO Artists

The direct contact between our audience, our team and our artists is an integral part of HIDALGO. We serve drinks at the bar before, during and after the concert.

Seating & accessibility

The event is partially seated and barrier-free. Feel free to contact our team if you have any impairments, preferably in advance by phone or via mail@hidalgofestival.de.

The hall is barrier-free. Severely disabled people with the B mark on their disabled person’s pass can take an accompanying person with them free of charge. Wheelchair spaces and accompanying persons can be booked by telephone or via mail@hidalgofestival.de to register.

Questions & suggestions

You can contact us at mail@hidalgofestival.de or call us on +49 (0)89 4444 3184 0 during our office hours on Monday and Thursday from 10 am to 5 pm. If we don’t answer, please leave a message on the machine and we will call you back.

Further information & directions

Detailed information about the location with directions and a map are summarized here.

PERFORMANCE
Sun. | October 22, 2023 | 8 p.m.
Mon. | October 23, 2023 | 8 p.m.

LOCATION
Microsoft Germany Headquarters, Foyer, Walter-Gropius-Straße 5

DURATION
70 minutes (without break)

WORKS
“Grenzen der Menschheit” and “Gretchen am Spinnrade” by Franz Schubert (text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe); “Urlicht” by Gustav Mahler (text from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn” by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano); recompositions and arrangements by Jonas Urbat & Paul Bießmann

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