[AI Times] Classical Concert in the Metaverse... AI Piano Also Performs Together

Emotionwave Holds 'Classical Mechatronica' with Jinseon Online and Offline

Performers and an AI piano performed together with a virtual host in the metaverse space.

A classical concert was held featuring musicians, an artificial intelligence (AI) piano, and hosts and audience members from a metaverse world interacting together.

Emotionwave, a metaverse performance company, held 'Classical Mechatronica,' a future-type metaverse concert where attendees meet through digital twins, at the Performance Hall on B1F of KOCCA Content Culture Plaza for about 70 minutes starting at 6 PM on the 4th. This performance was hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency, and organized by Emotionwave.

The appearance of AI piano and actual performers collaborating

The concert's subtitle was 'Bandoneonist Jinseon Concert Encounter (遭遇;Encounter)'. Centered on Jinseon, the bandoneon player known as the 'devil's instrument,' fellow performers included pianist Hanna Hwang, violinist Kim Woo-hyung and Sung Seung-joo, viola Kim Hyo-joon, and cellist Kang Joong-gu.

To this, an AI piano performance based on Emotionwave's 'RIMA AI' technology was added, and the entire performance unfolded simultaneously online and offline with a virtual host in the metaverse 'ifland'.

Jin Sun passionately playing the 'bandoneon,' an instrument resembling an accordion.

The concert themes included ▲the combination of my digital self and musical self ▲a new musical world encountered with AI ▲and a new musical world in a surreal space opposite to reality. A metaverse virtual host helped the audience understand by providing explanations of the themes and songs between performances.

According to the themes, Jin Sun performed 10 songs, including 'Secret of Clouds' and 'Cinema Paradise,' which is famous as an OST for Cinema Paradise.

Jin Sun is answering questions from the audience watching in the metaverse platform Ifland in real time.

The organizer explained, "We composed it with a total of three themes inspired by asking ourselves the question, 'Who am I, and what am I?'" and added that "the significance lies in showing how we realized a surreal world that felt like a dream through technological development."

An AI piano is playing alone even during the intermission of the performance.

The performance can also be experienced on MUTA, a metaverse platform specialized in music performances, on the 15th.

Meanwhile, this concert is part of the '2022 Convergence Content Demonstration Support Project' sponsored by the Korea Creative Content Agency.

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