This Friday, Thomas Bengalter, one half of the musical duo “Daft Punk” releases Mythologies. This is an album of music he has written (much during the Covid-19 pandemic) as a score for a ballet. It features classically inspired music (touches of Berlioz and Rimsky-Korsakov), and orchestral sounds. And he has many concerns on the direction of human vs artificial intelligence and where man will belong in such a future.
This is yet another step in a new direction for the duo. We remember them as the ‘robots’ who pushed the boundaries of electronic music starting almost 30 years ago. And the duo who gave us the…
