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\u201cThe Twin Paradox\u201d project is a collaboration between the composers, the orchestra, Google Arts & Culture and Google Germany. Having previously worked with Google to develop a music module for a project that brought AI to students, Jakob had the idea of co-composing with AI and was quickly introduced to the team at Google Arts & Culture, who has a long history of experimenting with classical music.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve worked with famed record label Deutsche Grammophon to digitize some of the oldest records ever made, and produced a 360\u00b0 of the opening performance of the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg,\u201d says Simon Rein, senior program manager at Google Arts & Culture. \u201cWhat made this project special to me was the emphasis on how AI can support creativity and human connection: composers coming together with Gemini to write the piece, an orchestra comes together to work out how to play it and you end in a concert where hundreds of people enjoy it together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gemini\u2019s first big contribution to the piece was the title. \u201cWe started by giving Gemini the basics: the number and type of instruments available, the desired length of the piece, and that it would be a creation between human composers and AI. Then we said, \u2018OK, give us a name,\u2019\u201d Jakob explains. In a clever nod to itself, Gemini suggested \u201cThe Twin Paradox,\u201d the name of a thought experiment from relativity theory that posits that if one of a pair of twins makes an extended space journey at near lightspeed, they will have aged less than their twin when they return.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe then challenged Gemini to tell us how The Twin Paradox would actually sound as music,\u201d Jakob says. \u201cIt suggested using different tempos at the same time, as well as glissandi \u2014<\/i> or sliding between notes \u2014 to show the stretching and compressing of time. That really inspired us. It was when I thought, \u2018Wow, this is going to work.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Over several months, Jakob interacted with the Gemini API via Google AI Studio on his laptop, sending its suggestions to Adrian, who would translate them into sheet music and play them on piano. The duo would discuss the results, refine and choose what to include in their composition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n