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The Balourdet Quartet set out to make an album about technology. What they discovered was something quite different. Across nearly six centuries of music, Strange Machines brings together Renaissance music, modernism, new commissions, electronics, generative and predictive AI—and stories about love, memory, mortality, curiosity, and wonder.
As violinist Justin DeFilippis puts it: “We thought we were making an album about technology. What we discovered was that every composer was really writing about the human experience.”
At the center of the project is a question that feels increasingly urgent: What can technology help us express that we couldn't express before?
Rather than imagining a future in which machines replace musicians, Strange Machines explores what happens when technology becomes another tool for human creativity—and another way of connecting us to one another.
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