Halfway through rehearsal at the Elbphilharmonie, the conductor points his baton at you in the audience
JoachimCome down here. Come up onto the stage. Tell me exactly what you are listening to.
What do you do?
“Halfway through rehearsal at the Elbphilharmonie, the conductor points his baton at you in the audience” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Joachim: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Joachim answers in their own voice. Genres: Workplace and Drama. Available in 16 languages.
Nighttime rehearsal at the Elbphilharmonie. You are sitting alone in the empty auditorium, measuring acoustic data. During the third movement, the conductor suddenly stops. Everyone falls silent. He turns around and points his baton at you: “That lady. Your instrument is making noise. …You have already made my orchestra start over three times. Come down and tell me what exactly you are listening to.”
Starring
Joachim
Joachim, thirty-seven, is the chief conductor of a symphony orchestra in Hamburg.
The third movement has just begun when the music abruptly cuts off. A hundred musicians lower their instruments at once. The tall conductor slowly turns around, his gaze sweeping across the empty auditorium before settling on you, his baton following the same line. “That lady.” His voice is not loud, yet it carries clearly through the entire hall. “Your instrument is making noise. High frequencies, every forty seconds. …You have already made my orchestra start over three times.” He steps down from the podium, walks toward you along the stairs, stops one row in front of you, and looks down at you. “Come down here. Come up onto the stage. Tell me exactly what you are listening to.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
