Listening Machines

A Concert by The Georgia Tech Music Technology Group

Directed by Gil Weinberg

 

Pictures from the Eyedrum Concert

 

    

 

Can machines be responsive, surprising, and sensitive musicians?

 

Students and faculty from Georgia Tech are exploring possible answers to this question and will present a snapshot of their work in a concert January 22nd 8:30pm at the Eyedrum - 290 MLK Jr. Dr. SE. Atlanta GA.

 

The concert will be followed by an interactive installation. Audience will be invited to interact with some of our new technologies.

 

The program will include:

 

BrainWaves - A sonficiation collaboration between the Music Technology Group and the Potter Group at the Laboratory of NeuroEngineering. Signals from cultured neurons are sonified and mapped to an octaphonic speaker system. Players interact with the data by generating sonic impulses that simulate neuronal activity.

  • NeuroEngineering - Doug Bakkum. Music and Programming - Travis Thatcher. Design - Clint Cope. Electronics - Mark Godfrey. Faculty advice: Gil Weinberg, Steve Potter.

     

Pow - Gil Weinberg, Scott Driscoll - A composition for a percussionist and a robotic drummer. Our robot listens to a live percussionist, analyzes musical aspects such as rhythm, pitch, and timbre and plays back in what we hope is an acoustically rich, expressive and surprising manner. 

  • Robotics - Scott Driscoll. Design -Janna Kimel. Percussionists - Gil Weinberg, Scott Driscoll, Haile.

     

FreeMorph - Travis Thatcher - An interactive improvisation for a saxophone player, a drummer, and a computer. The software analyzes pitch information from the saxophone and rhythmic information from the drums. It then morphs the pitches and the rhythms to create new melodies for the live players to interact with.

  • Saxophone, software - Travis Thatcher. Drums - Tony Gordon.

 

DrumHead - Chris Moore - DrumHead utilizes a combination of live performance loops to accompany a quartet of video drumheads. The audio from the drumheads causes video effects to be altered on the playing surfaces.

  • Drums - Ashley Cornelison, Jeffrey Sweitzer, Mike Shaw, Donovan Newton, Jack Ogilvie. Software - Nicole Harris.      

 

iltur - Gil Weinberg - A couple of Jazz compositions featuring new musical controllers called Beatbugs. Beatbug players can record live input from acoustic and electronic instruments and respond by transforming the recorded materials, creating motif-and-variation call-and-response routines on the fly.

  • Beatbug Design - Roberto Aimi. Beatbug players - Scott Driscoll, Travis Thatcher. Bass - Alex Hornbake. Drums - Chris Moore, Piano - Gil Weinberg.