The music is already written down the orchestra play what’s written, so what difference does the conductor make apart from the tempo?
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Conductor is a common denominator. Everybody’s trying to match him or her. If they weren’t there, everybody would try to match each other. Which, at typical human reaction speed of 200ms, would make 1 second delay for every 5 people if they’d be sequential, but more likely they wouldn’t, and it’d be even worse.
People are also empathetic. Conductor getting more passionate or rigid at parts controls volume and, in more signal-science kind of way, delay, attack, sustain, release, etc. People just don’t think about it in those terms, they put their emotions in instrument/music just like conductor does. You can move violin bow aggressively, or smoothly, make a short, rapid movement, or slow, sliding one and so on. That’s what makes live music art.
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