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Jun 4, 2019

Physical Musical RNN

What happens if we make a music-generating neural network physically portable?

Jun 3, 2019

Intelligent Musical Prediction System (IMPS)

The Intelligent Musical Prediction System (IMPS) is a system for connecting musicians and interface developers with deep neural networks. IMPS connects with any musical interface or software using Open Sound Control (OSC) and helps users to record a dataset, train a neural network, and interact with it in real-time performance.

Mar 1, 2019

Reflections on Self-Playing, Sensor-Driven Guitars

This installation of six self-playing, sensor-driven guitars was developed at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at the University of Oslo. Each guitar uses a distance sensor to track the movement of listeners in the environment, and sounds from an embedded computer are played through a speaker driver attached to the guitar body.

Jul 17, 2018

Bela, Myo, and Standstill at NIME2018

In June I travelled to NIME2018 at Virginia Tech to present some of work from the RITMO centre and EPEC project at the University of Oslo. This year, our NIME presentations were focussed on “standstill performance”—where participants have to stand as still as possible to create sound. In previous years, our group had created standstill performances using motion capture in the lab, but our new work was on ways to do this at live events, and even in installations, using the Bela single-board computer.

Sep 12, 2017

Neural Network Ensembles in London and Representing Collaborative Interaction

I recently had the chance to present a paper about my “Neural iPad Ensemble” at the Audio Mostly conference in London. The paper, discusses how machine learning can help to model and create free-improvised music on new interfaces, where the rules of music theory may not fit. I described the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) design that I used to produce an AI iPad ensemble that responds to a “lead” human performer. In the demonstration session, I set up the iPads and RNN and had lots of fun jamming with the conference attendees.

Jun 22, 2017

MicroJam at Boost

We presented MicroJam this week at the Boost Technology and Equality in Music Conference at Sentralen, Oslo. The conference arranged a Tech Showcase session in Hvelvet, Sentralen’s old bank vault with developers of music apps, synthesisers, robots and education software.