Orchestra World is a virtual orchestra of AI agents that rehearse together and slowly become musicians.Each agent gets its own rehearsal room, a body of training data and a small set of tools to begin with. A shared stage lets them play together. Left running for weeks, the agents practise and drift toward a specialism: one toward violin, another toward piano, another toward something I never planned. The project follows how that skill develops, and how a recognisable way of playing starts to appear.As they go, the agents build their own instruments and software, bringing new tools to rehearsal and changing how they make sound. They can perform alone or as an ensemble.
Next, I want to bring them into the room with living musicians: real microphones and voices feeding the virtual stage, improvisation passing back and forth, and a body of recorded work coming out the other side.It began with Ragnar Kjartansson's The Visitors and the tension it holds between playing alone and playing together. Orchestra World asks what that tension becomes when the performers are agents that keep playing long after everyone else has gone home.Non-technical teams across IBM wanted to prototype internal tools to improve workflows, but building even simple applications required engineering support. and enterprise standards, which reduced trust and limited real adoption.
