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Jul 20, 2017 · Courtesy of Walter Werzowa. In January, a cryptic poster plastered on a London wall announced the imminent return of The KLF — also variously known as The Kopyright Liberation Front, The JAMs...
- Past Attempts Hit A Wall
- Assembling The Team
- The Project Takes Shape
- Piecing Together Beethoven’s Creative Process
- Passing The First Big Test
Around 1817, the Royal Philharmonic Society in London commissioned Beethoven to write his Ninth and Tenth symphonies. Written for an orchestra, symphonies often contain four movements: the first is performed at a fast tempo, the second at a slower one, the third at a medium or fast tempo, and the last at a fast tempo. Beethoven completed his Ninth ...
In early 2019, Dr. Matthias Röder, the director of the Karajan Institute, an organization in Salzburg, Austria, that promotes music technology, contacted me. He explained that he was putting together a team to complete Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony in celebration of the composer’s 250th birthday. Aware of my work on A.I.-generated art, he wanted to kn...
In June 2019, the group gathered for a two-day workshop at Harvard’s music library. In a large room with a piano, a blackboard and a stack of Beethoven’s sketchbooks spanning most of his known works, we talked about how fragments could be turned into a complete piece of music and how A.I. could help solve this puzzle, while still remaining faithful...
As the project progressed, the human side and the machine side of the collaboration evolved. Werzowa, Gotham, Levin, and Röder deciphered and transcribed the sketches from the Tenth Symphony, trying to understand Beethoven’s intentions. Using his completed symphonies as a template, they attempted to piece together the puzzle of where the fragments ...
In November 2019, the team met in person again - this time, in Bonn, at the Beethoven House Museum, where the composer was born and raised. This meeting was the litmus test for determining whether A.I. could complete this project. We printed musical scores that had been developed by A.I. and built off the sketches from Beethoven’s Tenth. A pianist ...
Oct 20, 1999 · Few people recognize his name, but most know Walter Werzowa’s work: the five musical tones heard in every commercial for Intel Corp. and for computers that use its chips.
Oct 2, 2021 · WALTER WERZOWA: He wanted to dedicate his life to his 10th Symphony, but he passed away before he really got knee deep into it.
Oct 15, 2021 · Werzowa: So by nine, 10 o’clock in the morning, it’s like I’m already in heaven. Carey: Werzowa was listening for the perfect tune—a sound that was unmistakably Beethoven.
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Walter Werzowa (born 15 December 1960) is an Austrian composer, producer and owner of LA-based music production studio Musikvergnuegen. He is most famous for composing the "Intel bong" jingle and the 1980s hit "Bring Me Edelweiss" as part of the band Edelweiss.