Mari Kimura is an experimental string player extraordinaire, regularly venturing to the edge of what’s possible at the meeting of acoustic and electronic technology. GuitarBot is a “guitar”-playing robot (perhaps more reminiscent of a shamisen), an invention of Eric Singer, founder of the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots. The two meet above in a lovely video – not new, but well worth watching any old time, as reminded to us by Richard Swelling’s Etherbomb blog. Mari writes in comments on YouTube:
HI, Mari here. For those wondering what’s happening: Behind the white box, there is a Mac and an audio interface. I am running a software MaxMSP, which is LISTENING to the pitch. loundess and the timing of the violin. The ‘patch’ I created in Max contains certain interactive instructions such as "listen to the E (highest open string on the violin)". For example in the beginning, if you listen carefully you notice when I play above E, it stops. Iinteractions change in predetermined time frames.
It’s a reminder that, technology aside, the key ingredient in electro-acoustic music is great musicianship.
Quite nice stuff! And the video is shot by my friend Liubo Borrisov; Liubo, if you’re out there, say hi.
Great interactive music! Shows as well that a real good human violinist, that's really great! Toyota's violin player isn't close (although their trumpet player could be).
Sometimes sounds amazing, sometimes sounds crap.
But maybe she likes the crap too 🙂
It's amazing what Max/MSP can do.
Peter, I was going to say that you haven't been listening to the right shamisen players… but then I discovered ShamisenBot! 🙂
That video is pretty amazing though, It's a stroke of genius to leave GuitarBot freely recoiling like that.
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