The Cyber Conductor
SEBASTIAN GÜRTLER, ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN and ORCHESTRA
The world-famous conductor Claudio Abbado enters and strikes up the orchestra with the soothing music of a Mozart Symphony.
Suddenly, the music comes to a halt. The Maestro is frozen. The orchestra seems puzzled. Upon closer inspection, it is not Claudio Abbado at all! An average-looking man with a tie enters holding a remote control and presents Sebastian, the new fully automated cyber-conductor.
Sebastian is easy to manage with the remote control. He is fully fitted with all the standard commands such as play, pause, stop, fast-forward and rewind search. And thanks to a micro-chip the size of 1,000,632,900 gigabytes, Sebastian can perform any kind of music at the touch of a button.
However, during Beethovens 5th symphony, the orchestra starts to show signs of strain, and the rebel forces among the brass and percussion begin to protest. Protest turns into fist-fights among some of the orchestra members while the others bravely continue to finish the piece. In the meantime, Sebastian‘s circuits have blown up, and the cyber-conductor is in a state of malfunction. Will the classical concert ever be the same?
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