Mari Kimura: Guitarbotana

Video by Liubo Borrisov. This audio can be heard in Kimura's new CD POLYTOPIA from Bridge Records, released Sept. 2007.

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Music

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• Mari
• Kimura
• guitarbotana
• LEMUR

[marikimura145]

ありがと！！！

[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!

[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.

[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.

[pkarpenko]

Dude ... you gotta evolve past melody.

[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...

[TheBlessingOfG]

かっこよすぎ！

[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!!

[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]

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.