Artificial Intelligence, Brian Eno And The Displacement Of Air: The Making Of Halldór Eldjárn - The Reykjavik Grapevine

Musician Halldór Eldjárn has been drawing a lot of attention recently for his AI-approach to composing, as well as his homemade percussion-playing robots. Here's what has made him the artist he is today. The concept of generating music has always fascinated me. My uncle, Kjartan Ólafsson, has worked in this field for decades, creating an AI-driven music composition software called Calmus. He definitely made me realise it was possible to make a computer write music.