Mari Kimura: Guitarbotana

[marikimura145]

ありがと！！！

[TheBlessingOfG]

かっこよすぎ！

[gopherbobz]

I like how you vanish at the end. PS you should really consider building a BassBot... I think more lows would complement your playing even better than the guitarbot. I also feel the guitarbot will have a higher probability of going on a killing rampage than a BassBot.

[marikimura145]

@gopherbobz The vanishing act was Liubo Borissov's video editing, which I like very much also! The GuitarBot was built by Eric Singer the robot maker, I didn't do it myself :) I'm just a violin player. But BassBot sounds great!

[shakuhachi]

sugoi ne!

[avolynskiy]

This is beautiful! Thanks for posting this!

[RomyFresh]

Es muss mega spaßig sein mit so einem Ding zu Jammen

[NewMusicXX]

I really enjoyed this very much!!

[marikimura145]

Maybe I should create a page in my site explaining this in detail---there was a project to do a iShoU video but haven't gotten to it! The object in MaxMSP used: fiddle~ (pitch tracking) loudness~ (loudness tracking). I am also doing some simple processing: pitch shifting (harmv2~) and flanging.

[marikimura145]

Hi James, Mari here. I love to come to Portugal to perform some day! The pickup mic is connected to MOTU audio interface, which is connected to Mac. The MaxMSP is doing the realtime pitch tracking and loudness tracking etc. My patch in Max then take those information and create the composition as I designed, sending MID information to GuitarBot.

[jamesvla]

I use a similar hardware and software setup for performance improvising with alto viola, and electronics (a viola with parts used by gewa some years ago, and with a shadow nanoflex pick up, going into a ehx smmh (delay loopstation, reverb) edirol ua 101 interface, a mac book with max 5 installed, and then a yamaha 16 chanel mixer, with a moogerfooger low pass filter and ring modulator assigned to the aux 1.. maybe I put a video of me performing in concert with this and send to you by youtube

[jamesvla]

I would love to see this in concert (maybe in a next edition of the musica viva festival of miso music in portugal who knows)..

[jamesvla]

If you are really mary kimura.. you probably know one professor of mine I had some years ago one or two I guess, tomas henriques (he has been in usa studying with charles wuorinen).. he has told me that he knew mary kimura and the inventor of guitar bot.

[jamesvla]

extremely interesting both the permormance on the violin (is it improvised music?) with this reaktive/algorrithmic/generati­ve system of the robot guitar (can someone explain me how it works - maybe lemur, arduino, and max msp stuff (pitch to midi, algorrithmic, reactive and generative stuff some ound processing and synthesis too?) and controls to the lemur (?) and arduino that is controlling the robot,

[jamesvla]

sorry there was already an explanation that i didn't see.. even minding this can you give more information about the way as it has been done in max (objects used and so on) and the way as it interacts with the robot guitar (lemur, arduino?)

[marikimura145]

Hi SonicBrat, thank you so much, and YES I would LOVE to perform some day in Singapore! I have never been there, but Eric Singer, the founder of LEMUR (robot maker) did go there a few years ago with all these musical robots.

Hi dimitris108, thank you so much! I looked you up and you also studied with Hubert Howe? Me too, at Juilliard! Small world... I will be working with him next spring on his festival at CUNY.

[dimitris108]

Bravo Mari it is really amazing...

[SonicBrat]

Absolutely beautiful and brilliant stuff. It's wonderful to see interactive robotics "react" to live performance. You should come to Singapore someday to perform!

[marikimura145]

HI, Mari here. For those wondering what's happening: Behind the white box, there is a Mac and an audio interface. I am running a software MaxMSP, which is LISTENING to the pitch. loundess and the timing of the violin. The 'patch' I created in Max contains certain interactive instructions such as "listen to the E (highest open string on the violin)". For example in the beginning, if you listen carefully you notice when I play above E, it stops. Iinteractions change in predetermined time frames.

[88tuner]

Dang! No I can't get the melody out of my head. I think I may have developed erectile dysfunction listening to this.

[scastle82]

If the quality of this is determined by the difficulty to execute such a sound instead of it being pleasing to the ear then I should've video the fart I did this morning.

[gbates31]

she's the mars volta or pink floyd equivalent of violins.

[Tenetri]

maybe its because this is really good weed, but I thought it was cool

[mrcoldheart]

I guess I'm the minority here, This is very good.

Music is like Ice Cream ,just because you only like 2 flavors out of a possible 1000 flavors doesn't negate the fact that there's people out there that prefer something else. I also listen to things like Ambient ,Glitch, IDM etc..

[madmaxwhatever]

this song makes me angry

[iamhiddensomewhere]

uh, this sounds... fucking terrible.

[TheJacolyte]

uh, this sounds... fucking terrible.

[pkarpenko]

Dude ... you gotta evolve past melody.

[easycrack]

Dude .. this is under the category "music". It might be better off under some other category. Its definitely NOT music.

[jasarien]

From what I can see in the video and understand about music, it seems that the blocks you see are guitar fretboards hooked up to some kind of franekstienian type machine that is playing them either by remote control or by a preprogrammed set of instructions and she's playing along with it, using it as her accompaniment.

Not sure if any of that is true, just throwing in my guess...

[Corcoancaoc]

are the 4 blocks on the stand moving depending on how she plays? explanation, please :)

[Kormiku]

From a technical standpoint this is amazing, but this song scares me.

[flukshun]

what the hell is going on here

[taconumber5]

bizarre...

[nebulamedia]

wow!

[cmc59]

Yeah Mari!