Francesco Tristano’s Goldberg City Variations is an ambitious, brilliant project where the idea is to use midi technology to build a digital city in real-time with a combination of piano and computer.
The idea of the ‘Cosmic City’ first appeared in ‘Music and Architecture’, a book by engineer Iannis Xenakis. In Francesco’s project, the Greek pioneer’s imagination of future urban redevelopment is fuelled by Bach’s notes and grows via a projection on the stage behind him.
