ZOOZbeat and Improvising Robot 'Shimon' Jammin'

ZOOZbeat Founder and Chief Technology Officer Dr. Gil Weinberg will jam live from SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 emerging technologies conference in Yokohama, Japan December 16-19, 2009 with Shimon; a perceptual and improvisational autonomous robotic marimba player he created at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology.

At SIGGRAPH Asia 2009, musicians and non-musicians will also be ZOOZin' it with Shimon.

Story:
http://www.zoozmobile.com/blog/?p=295

Download ZOOZbeat in Apple iTunes App Store:
http://ow.ly/txAy
(Free until 6/29/10)

http://www.ZOOZbeat.com
http://www.twitter.com/ZOOZbeat

Shimon:
http://gtcmt.coa.gatech.edu/

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ZOOZbeat
• ZOOZmobile
• iPhone
• Music
• App
• remixing
• Shimon
• Dr. Gil Weinberg
• SIGGRAPH
• Robot
• Yokohama

[Dadguirat]

A look at the future... This is just as scary as the feared B Flat was to the 9th century monks who then promptly banned it.

This is simply and extension of the human muse, definitely NOT a replacement. Do not fear friends and neighbors. Artists created this.

[tunemon]

Great!

[terrapin52]

All your base are belong to us!

[BridgeToSolace]

@quadmaster89 You can easily hook up your Christmas lights to turn on and off depending on what music you feed into it.

I'm sure his head works on the on the same principles. It senses the BPM of the music and bobs its head accordingly.

[BridgeToSolace]

@quadmaster89 You can easily hook up your Christmas lights to turn on and off depending on what music you feed into it.

I'm sure his head works on the on the same principles. It senses the BPM of the music and bobs its head accordingly.

[boopbeepbeepboop]

awesome!

[quadmaster89]

Ok here's my question. Is the robot "feeling" the music when it's moving it's head around, or is that somehow programmed in?

[neamerjell]

The new HAL: "Yo HAL, baby, can you do me a groove in C# and 5/4 time?" HAL's response: "Sure Dave, just lay me down a few bars to start with."

[samurai1833]

Shit! Hal is kinda funky!

[kienzwj]

this robots got no soul

[macgyversfriend]

One drawback: it can't seem to play runs, just random notes up and down the octave, even though a majority of keyboard music features scales going up and down.

[InceRumul]

Finally!

Real life Animusic!!!