Who plays these quartets? Answer: nobody!

It is the mind and brain of one person, only one person.
No arms, no hands, no fingers playing..


These quartets are Beethoven's super magic: they are his unsurpassable way
of composing in his final years. He was then in the 1820's inventing an
entirely new style, a conversational one between the four instruments, and
including God. The six quartets performed here are arguably held to be
Beethoven's greatest masterpieces—a deaf man creating new sonorities, joys
and sacred intimacies, a celebration of being.
Manfred Clynes has enabled the computer uniquely to shape this music in
finest detail, with his deep and basic discoveries concerning the brain
language of music. He incorporated them into vast magic time-form shaping
powers--into musical meaning - collaborating with the computer. Far ahead of its time,
it also enables one single interpreter to shape the music of all four
participants of the quartet, unifyingly.

And thirdly there is the subordinate magic of the extraordinary new effective
technology forming all the varied musical sounds from the single
inexpressive notes of an instrumental scale, one scale only per instrument, in real
time, without the cumbersomeness of gigasampler's multiple samples for
each varied sound and articulation. It also provides expressive intonation
throughout for all instruments, freeing the music from the equal temperament impoverishing all computers and synthesizers.

And because the computer does not forget, interpretations may be incrementally improved in the future without losing previous achievements and unity. This opens up an avenue for future
progressive improvements of interpretation of our great musical heritage,
over a few days, or a week, a year, fifty years, hundreds or even thousands of
years - (if we haven't blown ourselves up by then).

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