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[Historical Performance Archived Streaming]

Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition

Is it the composer’s fault that the performer has only 10 fingers?

Ives - Symphony No.4
Haas -
Hommage à Steve Reich
Nancarrow -
Studies for Player Piano
and others

[EST] From 7:00 on Dec 27 (Mon) to 9:00 on Dec 31 (Sat), 2022

[UTC] From 12:00 on Dec 27 (Mon) to 14:00 on Dec 31 (Sat), 2022

December 25, 2022 at the Main Hall of Parthenon Tama, Tokyo.


This was the first performance of Ives' Fourth Symphony in Japan in 26 years! Following Hiroyuki Iwaki, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, and Seiji Ozawa in the previous century, the Japan premiere of the 2011 revised critical edition was realized with Masakazu Natsuda as the regular conductor, accompanied by two assistant conductors, for a total of three conductors. The stage, with the organ set high in the center of the choir, was filled to the very edge of the orchestra pit as Ives had intended, with the banda at the end of the audience seats, the percussionists and the third conductor on the left and right in the center of the hall.


Immediately after the performance, there were many comments on social networking sites, such as “I'm so glad I was there!” “I finally got to hear it while I was still alive!” “This was a historic performance!” We, organizers, are very happy to have received such positive feedback from the audience.

The archived above performance is being streamed until 9:00 [EST] / 14:00 [UTC] on December 31. We hope that those who were not able to attend the performance, and those who did attend, will enjoy the realistic feeling of the performance online, including the symposium and the art exhibition video in the foyer, while the excitement of the event is still fresh!

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[Title] Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition:
Is it the composer's fault that the performer has only 10 fingers?
[Date] December 25, 2022 (Sun)
[Venue] Parthenon Tama, Tokyo
[Art Exhibition] 13:00-20:00 Main Hall Foyer
[Concert] 15:00-18:00 (Door Open 14:30) Main Hall
[Organizer] Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group (AIAARG)
[Under the sponsorship of] Charles Ives Society
[Supported by] ALEPO Inc., NPO Corporation AI Patronage Group
[Under the Auspices of] The Agency for Cultural Affairs “ARTS for the future! 2”

  Charles Ives is America's most important composer, who unnoticedly pursued a wide variety of major 20th century avant-garde techniques such as quarter tones, polytonality, atonality, polyrhythm, simultaneous playing, dissonance, quotation, collage, etc., much earlier they appeared in music history.


  “Is it the composer's fault that the performer has only 10 fingers?” is his words. From this, we can see that an artist's vision is intrinsically free and grandiose, so much so that a human framework, such as the number of fingers, seems constricting.


  What is the “human framework”? If it is “artificial intelligence” (AI), can it be released from that cramped framework and fly freely?


  This project, “Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition: Is it the composer's fault that the performer has only 10 fingers?”, is a one-day full-orchestra music concert with chorus, symposium, and an AI discussion art exhibition held in the foyer, which attempts to approach the essence of artistic creation by assuming a kind of others called artificial intelligence.

December 25, 2022

Hideki Nakazawa
Mika Kusakari

Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group (AIAARG)

Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Concert


Conlon Nancarrow

Study for Player Piano No. 1

Study for Player Piano No. 15

Study for Player Piano No. 36

Study for Player Piano No. 27

Study for Player Piano No. 21


Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group

Quarter-Tone Hanon for 2 Pianos (world premiere)

Piano: Kaori Osuga, Yumi Oikawa


Charles Ives

Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for 2 Pianos

Piano: Kaori Osuga, Yumi Oikawa


Georg Friedrich Haas

Hommage à Steve Reich (Japan premiere)

Piano: Tomoki Akiyama

The 43rd AI Art & Aesthetics Research Meeting Symposium

“Is it the composer's fault that the performer has only 10 fingers?”

Morihide Katayama (Music Critic. Political Scientist. Prof. of Law at Keio Univ.)

Takehiro Ohya (Prof. of Law at Keio Univ.)

Hideki Nakazawa (Artist. Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group.)

Mika Kusakari (Artist. Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group.)

Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group

Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Symphony (World premiere)

Conductor: Masakazu Natsuda

Chorus: Vox humana, Mixed Chorus - Ku, Female Choir - Akatsuki

Orchestral Music: Tacticart Orchestra (Guest Concert Mistress: Fumiko Kai)

Piano: Tomoki Akiyama, Ondes Martenot: Motoko Oya, Organ: Hina Ikawa.


Charles Ives

Symphony No. 4 (Japan premiere of the 2011 critical edition)

Regular conductor: Masakazu Natsuda

1st Assistant conductor: Yuki Urabe

2nd Assistant conductor and Chorus Master: Ryuta Nishikawa

Solo Piano: Tomoki Akiyama

Chorus: Vox humana, Mixed Chorus - Ku, Female Choir - Akatsuki

Orchestra: Tacticart Orchestra (Guest Concert Mistress: Fumiko Kai)

Ondes Martenot: Motoko Oya, Organ: Hina Ikawa.

Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Exhibition


Is it the composer's fault that the performer has only 10 fingers?, CHARES IVES Symphony for full orchestra and choir and three pianos

AI Patronage Group + Midjourney


The Reverse Cocktail Party Effect

Manifesto of Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics

Prospectus for NPO Corporation AI Patronage Group

Articles of NPO Corporation AI Patronage Group

Chronological Table of Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics

Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group


Romanesco “Fibonacci Sequence”

Senjin Kusakari


Related materials for Symphony No. 4

Charles Ives


Roll of Study for Player Piano

Conlon Nancarrow


Conceptual Virus

Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group + Takaaki Mizuno

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Being streamed until 9:00 [EST] / 14:00 [UTC] on December 31.
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[Inquiry]
Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group (AIAARG)
yoyaku@aibigeiken.com

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