Can You Hear It? Music and Artificial Intelligence at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg

Music was my first love, And it will be my last,
Music of the future. And music of the past.

confided to us all the English singer John Miles in 1976, and thereby both tending to confirm the fundamental place music has, has had, in human civilisations and societies, music as an ancient and eternal force in human civilisation and society, and also through setting the future before the past, a setting, yes, not unrelated to the requirements and provisions of the ancient laws of rhyme, most poetically reminding us all that that which is before us will one day, via processes we don’t understand yet seek to control, be behind us.

And thereby also reminding us all that the music of the future is every bit a component of a contemporary society as is the music of the past.

With the exhibtion Can You Hear It? Music and Artificial Intelligence the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, offer space for reflections on music, and musicians, past, future and present.

And by extrapolation for reflections on design past, future and present…….