The concert, which will be held for the first time in the world with the participation of artificial intelligence, will take place in Vladivostok on September 10 as part of the cultural program of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF). According to Sber’s press service, the 1st Symphony, called “Cosmos”, written by musician and composer Pyotr Dranga, will be performed by the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra together with Sber’s neural network at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.
The company said that Symphony No. 1 for artificial intelligence and the Grand Symphony Orchestra is written in classical structure and consists of 4 parts.
In the 1st and 2nd parts, the solo part will be performed by virtuoso musicians from China, and the pre-recorded parts will be performed. In these, Sber SymFormer’s neural network model will control the expression of the performance directly on the stage using a virtual synthesizer.
In episodes 3 and 4, viewers will hear SymFormer’s real improvisations in real time.
Petr Dranga suggested that the neural network rethink, modify and complete the symphony.
Thus, artificial intelligence has become a full-fledged participant in the creative process and co-author of the composition. Sber notes that this unique project demonstrates advanced technologies and developments in the field of artificial intelligence created in Russia.
Another element of the performance is an art object symbolizing the neuromusician, the techno doll. The centerpiece of the music installation will be SberBoom, a powerful smart speaker with Salyut’s virtual assistant. It will show the guests of the event how deeply artificial intelligence technologies penetrate the field of creativity and art.
SymFormer is a model for creating musical compositions based on the principle of treating music as musical notes. It is based on the Performer architecture.
Sberbank said it was trained using the ML Space platform, based on SymFormer’s Christofari supercomputer, and a dataset of more than 200,000 songs in a variety of styles, from classical to modern electronic music and rock.