Berg Orchestra – MIDI

Contemporary music performed by the BERG Orchestra – this time centered around MIDI, or Musical Instrument Digital Interface. This revolutionary technological innovation has made it possible to connect live musicians with digital instruments, and this evening offers a dialogue between the acoustic and digital worlds. A fascinating work by German composer Michael Beil connects live musicians with virtual reality and video. Canadian author Nicole Lizée also uses video, and in a new work by young Slovak composer Patrik Herman, musicians compete with a live-controlled sampler. The boundary between reality and virtual reality is becoming increasingly blurred.

Program:

• Patrik Herman – Macrotopia (world premiere)

• Nicole Lizée – Black midi (Czech premiere)

• Michael Beil – Exit to Enter (Czech premiere)

BERG Orchestra & Peter Vrábel – conductor



The BERG Orchestra is an excellent Czech ensemble specialized in the performance of contemporary music. Since its inception it has commissioned and premiered almost three hundred new works. In 2021, it won the prestigious Prix Italia award for the Czech Republic for the first time in more than half a century.