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Kagami review: Mixed-reality gig brings dead headliner back to life

19 July 2023

Kagami, a mixed-reality concert at this year's Manchester International Festival, shows the fresh challenges and possibilities of state-of-the-art tech

Wild Wet World and Torus review: Transmuting obscure worlds into music

3 May 2023

Giving musical voice to the deep ocean and to the complex shapes of geometry is a serious ask. But composers Cosmo Sheldrake and Emily Howard manage this tough brief with aplomb

Sisters with Transistors explores the history of electronic music

Sisters with Transistors review: Brilliant electronic music pioneers

20 April 2021

Sisters with Transistors, directed by Lisa Rovner, celebrates the women whose breakthroughs in early electronic music laid the foundations of modern styles – and whose work has been overlooked by many

A classical concert at the Barbican shows how AI interprets a recital

3 July 2019

Sight Machine, an AI project at the Barbican, shows how the algorithms used in techniques like facial detection capture the performance of a string quartet

Most animals can’t keep a beat despite what Darwin believed

3 April 2019

Humans turn out to have the strongest sense of rhythm of all animals, says a new book, which makes strong evolutionary connections between music and language

An AI has created music based on Bach – but will an audience notice?

27 February 2019

An experiment at London's Barbican will pit an AI composer trained on the works of Bach against the original pieces in a concert called The Eternal Golden Braid