Má vlast/ Dennis R. Davies a Maki Namekawa

A four-hand piano performance by Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa. Just as Smetana in his music and descriptions evokes memories of long-gone times, revives myths, and idealizes history from the perspective of his era, these AI-based visualizations represent another iterative loop of continuous transformation and interpretation of our history and cultural identities. In the piano version, many passages particularly take on a nostalgic, fragile character, as the confident national pride of the 19th century gives way to uncertainty about where we stand and how we wish to define ourselves as a society and individuals in the present day.