| Introducing Werner Goebl and the Mysteries of Music Performance |
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bridges vol. 15, September 2007 / News from the Network: Austrian Researchers Abroad by Verena Katscher mp3 download Imagine walking through the labyrinthine streets of Vienna's 1st district, where music seems to be everywhere. Peeking into an old baroque building, you see a grand piano sitting in the lobby. Everything is quiet. Suddenly, a passionate piano performance is filling the air; but there is no pianist, only the keys and pedals of the piano are moving up and down, as if played by ghostly hands. What sounds like fiction now might soon become reality - music played by machines, not in a mechanical, emotionless manner but with the same passion and expression as one of our greatest pianists. The way to do this is to create Artificial Intelligence performances in the style of a certain pianist. Since the make-or-break of a score depends on human performance, the big question to solve is what actually makes the artistic performance of certain pianists so extraordinary. 
Werner Goebl
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