Algos

Greek pianist Pavlos Antoniadis has been working for many years on the development of an interface for analysing pianistic gestures and their multimodal augmentation.

His performance will focus on the result of this project, a large-scale work with video and artificial intelligence entitled 你們是蟲子 (You Are Bugs) - Homage to Liu Cixin, for piano, R-IoT sensors and AI agents. The idea of interaction between music and mathematical models is also reflected in three other works on the program: Tiento del Tercer Tono by Spanish late Renaissance composer Antonio de Cabezón (1510-1566), Horatio Radulescu's Fourth Sonata - a poetic interpretation of the physical qualities of sound - and the Berlin premiere of ALGOL, a work by post-war avant-garde classic Nicolaus A. Huber, inspired by the correspondence between C. G. Jung, the founder of psychoanalysis, and the quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli.

The virtuoso piece No by exiled Russian composer Dmitry Burtsev is also on programme , and the final piece is Sofferte Onde Serene for piano and electronics (1977) by Luigi Nono, one of the greatest visionaries of the future in music history, whose 100th birthday is being celebrated this year. The piece, a fusion between the living pianist and the electronic sound cloud, was written for and dedicated to the pianist Maurizio Pollini, who died this year.