Review | By Guillermo Escudero / Loop
Befreit die Maschinen | Hannes Seidl
The German composer Hannes Seidl works in different fields such as electroacoustic music, experimental cinema, contemporary classical music, radio, sound installations, video and musical theater. “Befreit die Maschinen” (“Liberate the Machines”) is an electronic music composition consisting of a single 42-minute track of sounds generated by computer programs. Seidl selects the sounds that will be included in the piece, to which samples from a conference by the philosopher Michael Hirsch are included. He declares the maxim: “less work so that everyone can work and live better.” This is linked to the idea of some scientists that robots or machines will replace the human being in those more mechanical or undesirable jobs, so that he can dedicate themselves to leisure, culture and social relations. The afore mentioned maxim is not yet fulfilled, but rather, on the contrary, society fears that robots will cause unemployment and leave it totally defenseless. […]