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Pretty cool!!! Hard to tell what is improvised and what is pre-planned. There's a part later on where the human keyboardist and the robots are playing a new m
by tunesmith 12y ago
Pretty cool!!! Hard to tell what is improvised and what is pre-planned. There's a part later on where the human keyboardist and the robots are playing a new melody line in unison, so that implies that the melody, rhythm, and placement (form) of that part of the piece was completely pre-composed. Maybe this is more like an in/out jazz piece where there's a set form of sections where each section is a combination of pre-planned and improvised music.
- mrobo 12y agoHi! This is my work and I just saw that somebody posted my performance here so I created an account to answer your question. You are right that some parts are completely pre-composed. The bass lines and sections where all the robots and me play in sync are composed. Most everything else is generated algorithmically. The robots have a computational knowledge of jazz and improvisation so they fill in the spaces between the pre-composed sections with their own music. The smaller Shimi robots also analyze the music and figure out how best to move so that their movements (or dances) correlate with the music. Unlike Pat Metheny's Orchestrion and other musical robots (honda) I focus on the artificial intelligence and getting machines to generate their own music instead of just being controlled by a person. The other thing about my improvisation algorithms is that they require the robot to have a self-awareness of its physical self meaning that it understands its physical abilities and limitations. This allows it to make musical decisions that are directly influenced by its physical function and design. If another robot with different physical constraints were to use the exact same note generating algorithms the outcome would be different.
- tunesmith 12y agoThat's really cool! Thanks for the response!