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The Role of Conductors: More Than Just Beating Time – How Technology Has Shaped Orchestras and What the Future May Bring
On July 3, a piece of news that “a robot conducts the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra of South Korea” spread like wildfire. In the rehearsal hall, the musicians are sitting upright, and on the podium are a human conductor and a robot with a human silhouette and a baton in its hand. As the robot waved the baton, the musicians in the audience also started to play. Lee Dong-wook of the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, which developed the technology, said the performance was to explore “how far can robots go in the creative field, and what challenges they will encounter.” Well, as a music fan who has loved classical music…