Competitor, partner or support staff?
Tel Aviv, the city where one in four families has at least one person working in high tech, hosted the music and technology congress – MUSICtech. This event has nothing in common with the quiet of serious tech congresses. You can hear drums, flutes, jonics, a strange musical instrument that looks like a crotch cut in half, and a bow. It turns out to be a multi-functional stringed instrument whose strings are fiber optic beams. Through a mobile app, it can be turned into a violin, cello, double bass, lute, gusla, or ancient Chinese stringed instrument. Famous soloists play it. And they are not in the least bit sad about their Stradivarius. We meet a friend of mine, a guitar teacher and composer, who doesn’t know how artificial intelligence will affect her career.
“I was expecting that he’d cancel my homework so I’d have more time to play and compose, but he has a desire to create on his own. I’m here to find out if he’s my competitor, partner or support staff.”
