Watch when an orchestra 'played' AI and big data at the Louvre

Accenture has teamed up with a coder, an orchestral composer and a datavis company to put artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to music, in a project called Symphonologie. Looking to combine data with art, Symphonologie's visual music piece has three influences: business, technology and the new digital world. To combine all of these into one artistic experience, Accenture looked to Hannah Davis, a musician and creative technologist; Rare Volume, an interactive design and data company; and composer Mathieu Lamboley. The project began with Davis' thesis, which dealt with putting music to words. She built a computer programme called TransProse, which reads bodies of text and determines the "densities" of eight emotions: joy, sadness, anger, disgust, anticipation, surprise, trust, and fear.