THE FUTURE OF MUSIC: ROBOT CONTROLLER + 3D VIDEO

Is collaboration between humans and robots possible in music?
Now the answer is yes.

This is a live performance-demonstration of an innovative research project made by Italian Institute of Technology (IIT - Advanced Robotics Department), mixing electronic music, a robot arm as a music interface, and the experience of interactive 3D projections.


The robot interacts with the artist to create and modify musical parameters during the performance.
On the background, 3D figures represent the robot trajectories, figuring musical parameters.

Artist: Valerio Visconti (K)
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Credits: Victor Zappi - Antonio Pistillo - Sylvain Calinon - Andrea Brogni - Darwin Caldwell
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Project Abstract: "The availability of haptic interfaces in music content processing o ers
interesting possibilities of interaction between human users and novel instruments
and controllers for musical expression. The capability to precisely modulate haptic
feedback on the user establishes a direct connection with the sonic output,
which enhances the modalities of artistic content creation. The use of robots as
both manipulators and actuated interfaces o ers new perspective in a combined
context of human-robot interaction and music playing. With this project we investigate
the use of a compliant robotic arm as a bidirectional tangible interface for
musical expression. We exploited the robot capabilities to con gure a system in
which a human user and the robot interact for the creation of recursive modulations
of music parameters. An experimental session has been carried out with the
collaboration of a musician, who performed with the robot as part of his live stage
setup."

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[frostbitestudios]

What kind of monome is that? I mean obviously it's not a monome, but some sort of similar creation. What is it?

[valopornolove]

@frostbitestudios it's a custom monome, it's like the original but with a different case :)

[TheAuralab]

..mmm nice work!!!.. .., nice collaboration!

[valopornolove]

@TheAuralab thank you :)

[nicopid]

scusa ma chi è il robot???? hahahaha ebbravo K.

very nice...very nice.....

[valopornolove]

@nicopid :))

[zvkkvz]

zvkkvz a goooddssssstuff

[rgbsound]

This is the future! Great performance!

[rgbsound]

Amazing!!!