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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.
read moreBela, 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.
read moreNeural 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.
read moreAndromeda is Coming: first album launch
On 15 July 2017 I launched the debut self-titled album from Andromeda is Coming with a live performance at the Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centre in Canberra.
read moreMicroJam 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.
read moreMusic Tech at IFI
We recently hosted a music technology event at the Department of Informatics to gather together researchers and students from the University of Oslo to see performances and demonstrations of current research.
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