The 21st IFAC World Congress 2020 featured the first performance ever by the IFAC Control Orchestra. In this unique event, a virtual orchestra performance was presented including only musicians from the automatic control community.
More precisely, the Grand Opening Ceremony of the World Congress included a performance of "For a lifetime", based on "Ein Leben lang" by the Swiss group Fäaschtbänkler. Furthermore, the Closing Ceremony featured a performance of "Smoke on the water", based on the original song by Deep Purple. Both songs were conducted by Jochen M. Rieber. We thank all musicians for contributing to this performance.
We additionally plan to organize further performances of the IFAC Control Orchestra at some point in the future, either remotely or live on stage at an IFAC conference. For this, we are constantly looking for interested people from the automatic control community who have some previous musical experience and who are interested in being part of this highly dynamic, distributed, nonlinear, adaptive, fuzzy, MIMO, fault-tolerant, learning-based feedback control system with experimental verification and validation. If this tickles your fancy and you would like to be informed about the next steps, please send us an e-mail to: control-orchestra@ist.uni-stuttgart.de
Musicians in the performance at the 21st IFAC World Congress 2020:
Name | instrument |
|---|---|
| Simon Bachler | bass clarinet |
| Maria Domenica Di Benedetto | piano |
| Julian Berberich | guitar |
| Franco Blanchini | violin |
| Patrizio Colaneri | flute |
| Ian Craig | cello |
| Darius Djafari-Rouhani | violin |
| Arthur Scolari Fagundes | guitar |
| Thomas Gellrich | cello |
| Nykolay Gerashchenko | clarinet |
| Giuseppe Gillini | guitar, bass guitar |
| Michael Hertneck | clarinet |
| Anne Koch | piano |
| Paul Kotyczka | violin |
| Steffen Leonhardt | percussion |
| Masahiro Mae | double bass |
| Manuel Alberto Martínez Arenas | alto sax |
| Miguel Mauricio Iglesias | cello |
| Mirko Mazzoleni | guitar, tenor sax |
| Matthias A. Müller | trumpet |
| Simon Muntwiler | tenor sax |
| Martin Pfeifer | bass guitar |
| Jochen M. Rieber | clarinet |
| Arash Shahbakhsh | tanbour |
| Alia Strandt | clarinet |
| Julia Wagner | alto sax |
| Julian Wanner | violin |
Organization:
Jochen M. Rieber, Airbus Defence and Space, Friedrichshafen, Germany
(arranger, conductor, audio/video engineering)
Julian Berberich, University of Stuttgart, Germany
(organization, audio/video engineering)