The quiet revolution

Picture the scene: you’re about to get up on stage to give a presentation or performance. Something feels off – you look down, and realise your shirt is missing; in fact, you have no clothes on at all

‘We’re going to have a tonal centre and tap our feet, and that’s the way it is.’ Steve Reich is in full flow, talking to me from his home in New York. ‘The big break, the knife down the line, was betw

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It is the best of times! It is the worst of times! Charles Dickens didn’t do headlines, but if he did, the current debates about AI (Artificial Intelligence) in our lives and culture would be made for