Robert Wilson passed away on 31st July 2025, at the age of 83, in Water Mill (New York, USA).
Please note that neither the voice or the words featured in the materials below are those of Robert Wilson.
Whilst it is my words that are heard first and then go on to lead the interview, it is not my voice that speaks them. The text for the interview was generated in a conversation I had with ChatGPT. I then fed the conversation into a text-to-speech AI voice generator, giving ChatGPT-Wilson and myself distinct voices. I replaced my own voice by feeding the AI voice generator with an extract of a speech given in English by Albert Einstein [see here]; and voiced ChatGPT-Wilson with an AI-generated voice based on the voice of dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs, one of Robert Wilson's longstanding collaborators. I have scored the videos below with piano and violin covers of two 'kneeplays' from Philip Glass's composition for Einstein on the Beach (1976).
I have not substantially changed or made any major additions to the text that ChatGPT generated in response to my questions. I also did not change the sometimes random changes in tempo in the AI-generated voices, and their occasional mistakes, I also decided to leave in other mist-AI-kes , or w-AI-rds, which had been the result of my own typos since the beginning of the project.