Itay Talgam has conducted some of the world’s best ensembles, and studied with and assisted great conductors such as Leonard Bernstein and Claudio Abbado. At the Interactive Exchange, Itay presented an emotional and captivating presentation about music. He showed how music shares so much with the need for collaboration of the interactive industry. To make an orchestra sound like more than a collection of individuals, it takes knowledge and innovation, individual effort and collective achievement. Similarly in the creation of unique and innovative interactive projects, it takes some sort of conducting. There are two kinds of conductors, traditional and modern. The traditional conductor is one who micro-manages, using their arms and managing the sounds in unison as it has been done for centuries. They focus on order, which is prohibitive to growth, as growth requires some sort of chaos.
On the other side, there are modern conductors. These conductors are more fluid and less traditional in their delivery of order They may find that they use their whole being to move and control the music. They may dance, they may sway, they may get the audience involved…but they do not simply rely on their hands. This gives them a sense of chaos in their method and is exactly what is required to allow growth to happen. Innovation only happens when you change the way things have been done in the past. Seems so obvious, wonder why watching a series of videos of classical conductors really brings home the message that to be innovative and grow, we need to be more open to chaos and less focused on order.
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