Robotic Musicianship jam session - Jazz

A session between two humans and two robots: Haile, the perceptual robotic drummer detects the beat played by a human darbuka player and improvises based the human's input.

Shimon, the robotic marimba player, joins the session, detecting the beat and improvising based on the analyzed scale played by as human piano player.

The work comes from Gil Weinberg's Robotic Musicianship Group at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology. Students: Trishul Mallikarjuna, Aparna Raman and Brian Blosser. Also from Gil Weinberg, ZOOZbeat.

ZOOZbeat is available on Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.

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ZOOZbeat:
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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• robot
• music
• GTCMT
• Gil Weinberg
• Robotic
• Musicianship
• perception
• improvisation
• musical
• zoozbeat
• zoozmobile
• iPhone
• iTouch

[thedrfoust]

@TheDarkSide599 WOOT!!! ....??...!

[TheDarkSide599]

@stephenthebassist You're only saying that because ... well I really don't know why :S This is good for robots, and just because they're robots, doesn't mean that it's bad.

[stephenthebassist]

@KwameNewton yeah and i'm equally impressed with the technology and equally unimpressed with the concept

[KwameNewton]

@stephenthebassist Agreed. Have you ever seen the Giant Steps robot?

[stephenthebassist]

@KwameNewton but my point is they never will sound right because they miss the human element that is entirely necessary

[KwameNewton]

@stephenthebassist In all honesty, this is probably at the forefront of robotic musicianship. This is probably better than before, and their goal is to keep improving until it actually does sound good.

[youngprofessor]

um...yeah..call me when they can actually play in time

[stephenthebassist]

This sounds so bad... As a jazz musician with respect for the greats, this should never be considered music, nor should machines ever try to replicate those great players, because they are doomed to fail

[meepshizzleyams]

im lovin the drum robot

[shoegazer666]

this is not music!