We are excited to announce the comeback of one of the highlights of the IFAC World Congress 2020 & 2023: The IFAC Control Orchestra! Sign up to learn more!
After the virtual performance in 2020, the IFAC World Congress 2023 featured the first live performance ever by the IFAC Control Orchestra. At the closing ceremony, 33 musicians from the automatic control community performed three pieces live on-stage in front of an estimated audience of 2000 attendees: the festive ballad “You Raise Me Up“ by Norwegian composer Rolf Lovland (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUkssoyOyU8), the fast-paced modern pop song “Blinding Lights“ by Canadian singer The Weeknd (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhn-6SduXvs), and the well-known rock classic “Don't stop believin'“ by the American band Journey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I1FhHJKI7U).
The organizers of the 23rd IFAC World Congress 2026 in Busan are now planning a comeback of the IFAC Control Orchestra. Once again, the plan is to form an orchestra ensemble including only musicians from the automatic control community, to practice on site during the IFAC World Congress, and to put on a live performance during the congress.
For this event, we are looking for interested people from the automatic control community who have some previous musical experience and who are interested in being part of a highly dynamic, distributed, nonlinear, adaptive, fuzzy, MIMO, fault-tolerant, learning-based feedback control system with experimental verification and validation.
If you would like to join the IFAC Control Orchestra, or would just like to be informed about the next steps, then subscribe to our e-mail list at https://www.ifac2026.org/fairBbs.do?selAction=view&FAIRMENU_IDX=21664&BOARD_IDX=72535.
Further information on the orchestra including links to the IFAC 2020 performance can be found on www.ifac-control.org/about/ifac-control-orchestra.
