Credits:

Yalda Zamani

Description:

A fusion of composed music and AI-generated musicA chamber opera exploring themes of artificial consciousness, humanity, destruction, and the wonder of existence*DeepSiesta*, a new chamber opera by composer Amen Feizabadi, born in Tehran, Iran, in 1983. It tells the story of Ok and Mani, artificial lifeforms born from digital chaos, as they discover the world with curiosity and an open mind. While encountering beauty and emotion, they also confront the contradictions and abysses lurking within human existence, eventually reaching the decision to destroy humanityand ultimately, themselves.In *DeepSiesta*, Feizabadi attempts a bold shift in perspective regarding contemporary debates surrounding artificial intelligence. We come to view human existence through the eyes of AI. The protagonists perspectives function like a prism, breaking our own image into countless fragments and reflecting the fami