Integrating hyperinstruments, musical robots & machine musicianship for North Indian classical music

Authors:
Ajay Kapur;Eric Singer;Manjinder S. Benning;George Tzanetakis; Trimpin
Affiliations:
University of Victoria, BC, Canada and League of Electronic Music Urban Robots (LEMUR), Brooklyn, NY and KarmetiK Technology (A Division of KarmetiK LLC), Reno, NV;League of Electronic Music Urban Robots (LEMUR), Brooklyn, NY;University of Victoria, BC, Canada and KarmetiK Technology (A Division of KarmetiK LLC), Reno, NV;University of Victoria, BC, Canada;-
Venue:
NIME '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper describes a system enabling a human to perform music with a robot in real-time, in the context of North Indian classical music. We modify a traditional acoustic sitar into a hyperinstrument in order to capture performance gestures for musical analysis. A custom built four-armed robotic Indian drummer was built using a microchip, solenoids, aluminum and folk frame drums. Algorithms written towards "intelligent" machine musicianship are described.' The final goal of this research is to have a robotic drummer accompany a professional human sitar player live in performance.