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The Human, the Mechanical, and the Spaces in between: Explorations in Human-Robotic Musical Improvisation
S. Barton (2013). Published in the Proceedings of the Ninth Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment International Conference (AIIDE 2013) Abstract HARMI (Human and Robotic Musical Improvisation) is a software and hardware system that enables musical robots to improvise with human performers. The goal of the system is not to replicate human musicians, but rather to explore the novel…
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MotorMouth
2011 for the musical robots PAM and MADI; 3:00
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Human-Robot Improvisation
I have been developing software that allows humans to improvise with the robots built by EMMI and the Music, Perception and Robotics Lab at WPI. The bots have interacted with some wonderful performers: Performance at Clark 2o-21 with Matt Jaskot, Peter Sulski and CADI / modular percussion instruments, Oct 30, 2013 Performance excerpt 2 at…
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HCL Chicago sponsored artist video
This is a video about my residency as a sponsored artist at High Concept Laboratories in Chicago in the summer of 2013. By Carly Mostar.
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Reposition
Fall, 2012 for the musical robots AMI, CARI and TAPI; 5:00
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Weird and Unusual Machines Make Music
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from here to there
2012 for the musical robots AMI and CARI; 5:00 From Here to There explores the transformational distance between contrasting entities. The idea of transformational distance, borrowed from psychology and algorithmic information theory, measures the similarity between entities as a function of the list of instructions that is required to transform entity A into entity B.…
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Push for Position
2010-2011 for saxophone, bassoon, PAM, MARIE and electronics Push for Position comprises a number of core trajectories that are defined by sound source (in this case, human-played instruments, robotic instruments, and synthesizers), high-level associations, and thematic material. These trajectories intertwine with each other so that when one rises to the surface, the others are eclipsed.…