Wayne Siegel - Wayne Siegel: Celebration

A computer is connected to a massive pipe organ and robot musicians take control for the next 60 minutes�without human intervention. California-born composer Wayne Siegel (b. 1953) is a pioneer of computer-based music. In his work Celebration, the four manuals of the Hallgr�mskirkja pipe organ in Reykjav�k are controlled by four virtual musicians, all of them eager to express themselves individually but also programmed to perform together. Icelandic hymns and live-data from a weather satellite are interpreted by the virtual musicians playing the pipe organ, embedding human culture and the climate of our planet in everything they say.