Philadelphia Orchestra accompanies artificial intelligence to create live art

For this performance of Beethoven with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Anadol "taught" his system by feeding it hundreds of thousands of images of Renaissance art and architecture, the kind of aesthetics that Beethoven himself would have been consuming when he wrote his celebrated works. "We are taking from the Renaissance era every single building ever done, every single sculpture ever created, and every single painting ever done," Anadol said. "These are amazingly large cultural data. We are trying to make an AI to dream these beautiful cultural elements of humanity." The system uses fluid dynamics algorithms to generate animation effects resembling flowing water and wind through hair.