Anna Vilenskaya in Vienna 18 November 2026
Anna Vilenskaya is a musicologist, lecturer, and advocate for classical and contemporary music. She has a knack for explaining complex topics in a simple, engaging,and humorous way, helping listeners hear music in a new light and understand how it works.
Topic: The Music of the Future: Fears That Have Already Come True and New Hopes
At various times, listeners and composers have been concerned about synthetic music in its various forms—from the mechanical piano to artificial intelligence. In this lecture, we’ll discuss which of these fears have come true, whether a musical “Brave New World” has arrived, what the unexpected success of Angine de Poitrine has to do with this, how TikTok is changing the form of songs, and we’ll also develop a hypothesis about what music might become in the near future.