Robotic Musicianship

Author : Gil Weinberg,Mason Bretan,Guy Hoffman,Scott Driscoll
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030389307

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Robotic Musicianship by Gil Weinberg,Mason Bretan,Guy Hoffman,Scott Driscoll Pdf

This book discusses the principles, methodologies, and challenges of robotic musicianship through an in-depth review of the work conducted at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (GTCMT), where the concept was first developed. Robotic musicianship is a relatively new research field that focuses on the design and development of intelligent music-making machines. The motivation behind the field is to develop robots that not only generate music, but also collaborate with humans by listening and responding in an expressive and creative manner. This combination of human and machine creativity has the potential to surprise and inspire us to play, listen, compose, and think about music in new ways. The book provides an in-depth view of the robotic platforms designed at the GTCMT Robotic Musicianship Group, including the improvisational robotic percussionists Haile and Shimon, the personal robotic companion Shimi, and a number of wearable robots, such as the Robotic Drumming Prosthesis, The Third Drumming Arm, and the Skywalker Piano Hand. The book discusses numerous research studies based on these platforms in the context of five main principles: Listen like a Human, Play Like a Machine, Be Social, Watch and Learn, and Wear It.

Author : Ewa Mazierska,Les Gillon,Tony Rigg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501355899

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The Future of Live Music by Ewa Mazierska,Les Gillon,Tony Rigg Pdf

What 'live music' means for one generation or culture does not necessarily mean 'live' for another. This book examines how changes in economy, culture and technology pertaining to post-digital times affect production, performance and reception of live music. Considering established examples of live music, such as music festivals, alongside practices influenced by developments in technology, including live streaming and holograms, the book examines whether new forms stand the test of 'live authenticity' for their audiences. It also speculates how live music might develop in the future, its relationship to recorded music and mediated performance and how business is conducted in the popular music industry.

Author : Eduardo Reck Miranda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030721169

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Handbook of Artificial Intelligence for Music by Eduardo Reck Miranda Pdf

This book presents comprehensive coverage of the latest advances in research into enabling machines to listen to and compose new music. It includes chapters introducing what we know about human musical intelligence and on how this knowledge can be simulated with AI. The development of interactive musical robots and emerging new approaches to AI-based musical creativity are also introduced, including brain–computer music interfaces, bio-processors and quantum computing. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology permeates the music industry, from management systems for recording studios to recommendation systems for online commercialization of music through the Internet. Yet whereas AI for online music distribution is well advanced, this book focuses on a largely unexplored application: AI for creating the actual musical content.

Author : Martin Clancy
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000688665

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Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem by Martin Clancy Pdf

Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem highlights the opportunities and rewards associated with the application of AI in the creative arts. Featuring an array of voices, including interviews with Jacques Attali, Holly Herndon and Scott Cohen, this book offers interdisciplinary approaches to pressing ethical and technical questions associated with AI. Considering the perspectives of developers, students and artists, as well as the wider themes of law, ethics and philosophy, Artificial Intelligence and Music Ecosystem is an essential introduction for anyone interested in the impact of AI on music, including those studying and working in the creative arts.

Author : Friedemann Sallis,Valentina Bertolani,Jan Burle,Laura Zattra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317692102

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Live Electronic Music by Friedemann Sallis,Valentina Bertolani,Jan Burle,Laura Zattra Pdf

During the twentieth century, electronic technology enabled the explosive development of new tools for the production, performance, dissemination and conservation of music. The era of the mechanical reproduction of music has, rather ironically, opened up new perspectives, which have contributed to the revitalisation of the performer’s role and the concept of music as performance. This book examines questions related to music that cannot be set in conventional notation, reporting and reflecting on current research and creative practice primarily in live electronic music. It studies compositions for which the musical text is problematic, that is, non-existent, incomplete, insufficiently precise or transmitted in a nontraditional format. Thus, at the core of this project is an absence. The objects of study lack a reliably precise graphical representation of the work as the composer or the composer/performer conceived or imagined it. How do we compose, perform and study music that cannot be set in conventional notation? The authors of this book examine this problem from the complementary perspectives of the composer, the performer, the musical assistant, the audio engineer, the computer scientist and the musicologist.

Author : Richard Savery
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000993615

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Sound and Robotics by Richard Savery Pdf

Sound in human–robot interaction currently encompasses a wide range of approaches and methodologies not easily classified, analyzed or compared among projects. This edited book covers the state of the art in sound and robotics, aiming to gather existing approaches in a combined volume. Collecting chapters from world-leading academic and industry authors, Sound and Robotics: Speech, Non-Verbal Audio and Robotic Musicianship explores how robots can communicate through speech, non-verbal audio and music. The first set of chapters explores how robots use verbal communication, considering the possibilities of speech for human–robot interaction. The second section shifts to roles of non-verbal communication in HRI, including consequential sound, sonification and audio cues. The third and final section describes current approaches to robotic musicianship and their evaluation. This book is primarily aimed at HRI researchers, ranging from those who have never used sound to those very experienced with sound. Alongside robotic researchers, this book will present avenues for a diverse range of musicians, composers and sound designers to become introduced to the world of HRI and learn of potential creative directions in robotics.

Author : Jorge Solis,Kia Ng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642222917

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Musical Robots and Interactive Multimodal Systems by Jorge Solis,Kia Ng Pdf

Musical robotics is a multi- and trans-disciplinary research area involving a wide range of different domains that contribute to its development, including: computer science, multimodal interfaces and processing, artificial intelligence, electronics, robotics, mechatronics and more. A musical robot requires many different complex systems to work together; integrating musical representation, techniques, expressions, detailed analysis and controls, for both playing and listening. The development of interactive multimodal systems provides advancements which enable enhanced human-machine interaction and novel possibilities for embodied robotic platforms. This volume is focused on this highly exciting interdisciplinary field. This book consists of 14 chapters highlighting different aspects of musical activities and interactions, discussing cutting edge research related to interactive multimodal systems and their integration with robots to further enhance musical understanding, interpretation, performance, education and enjoyment. It is dichotomized into two sections: Section I focuses on understanding elements of musical performance and expression while Section II concentrates on musical robots and automated instruments. Musical Robots and Interactive Multimodal Systems provides an introduction and foundation for researchers, students and practitioners to key achievements and current research trends on interactive multimodal systems and musical robotics.

Author : Richard Kronland-Martinet,Sølvi Ystad,Kristoffer Jensen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540850359

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Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Sense of Sounds by Richard Kronland-Martinet,Sølvi Ystad,Kristoffer Jensen Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval Symposium, CMMR 2007, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 2007 jointly with the International Computer Music Conference 2007, ICMC 2007. The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the area, the papers address a broad variety of topics in computer science and engineering areas such as information retrieval, programming, human computer interaction, digital libraries, hypermedia, artificial intelligence, acoustics, signal processing, etc. CMMR 2007 has put special focus on the Sense of Sounds from the synthesis and retrieval point of view. This theme is pluridisciplinary by nature and associates the fields of sound modeling by analysis, synthesis, perception and cognition.

Author : Patricia Alves-Oliveira,Amy LaViers,Peter H. Kahn,Goren Gordon,Maya Cakmak,Vasanth Sarathy
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9782832503843

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Creativity and Robotics by Patricia Alves-Oliveira,Amy LaViers,Peter H. Kahn,Goren Gordon,Maya Cakmak,Vasanth Sarathy Pdf

Author : Stephanie Burridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000207569

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Embodied Performativity in Southeast Asia by Stephanie Burridge Pdf

A collection presenting cutting edge research from music, dance, performance art, fashion and visual arts, written by scholar-practitioners working in Southeast Asia. This eclectic monograph explores multi-disciplinarily performativity through the body. Exploring the notion of the body as central to creative practice it draws together conversations centring on innovation through embodied knowledge relating to space, time and place. The authors in this collection are leaders in their field and recognized internationally. Their chapters represent new directions in thought and practice by game-changers in the arts. Underpinned by a central theme of corporeality, it is bold and innovative in its scope and range, bringing diverse disciplines together. It enables connections that create new ways of critically exploring corporeality extending beyond physicality and the traditional body-centred areas of performing arts practice. Insightful and stimulating reading for students, scholars and practitioners across the tertiary arts sector, as well as education, therapy, cultural studies and interdisciplinary arts.

Author : Belinda J. Dunstan,Jeffrey T. K. V. Koh,Deborah Turnbull Tillman,Scott Andrew Brown
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031281389

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Cultural Robotics: Social Robots and Their Emergent Cultural Ecologies by Belinda J. Dunstan,Jeffrey T. K. V. Koh,Deborah Turnbull Tillman,Scott Andrew Brown Pdf

This edited collection approaches the field of social robotics from the perspective of a cultural ecology, fostering a deeper examination of the reach of robotic technology into the lived experience of diverse human populations, as well as the impact of human cultures on the development and design of these social agents. To address the broad topic of Cultural Robotics, the book is sectioned into three focus areas: Human Futures, Assistive Technologies, and Creative Platforms and their Communities. The Human Futures section includes chapters on the histories and future of social robot morphology design, sensory and sonic interaction with robots, technology ethics, material explorations of embodiment, and robotic performed sentience. The Assistive Technologies section presents chapters from community-led teams, and researchers working to adopt a strengths-based approach to designing assistive technologies for those with disability or neurodivergence. Importantly, this section contains work written by authors belonging to those communities. Creative Platforms and their Communities looks to the creative cross-disciplinary researchers adopting robotics within their art practices, those contributing creatively to more traditional robotics research, and the testing of robotics in non-traditional platforms such as museum and gallery spaces. Cultural Robotics: Social Robots and their Emergent Cultural Ecologies makes a case for the development of social robotics to be increasingly informed by community-led transdisciplinary research, to be decentralised and democratised, shaped by teams with a diversity of backgrounds, informed by both experts and non-experts, and tested in both traditional and non-traditional platforms. In this way, the field of cultural robotics as an ecological approach to encompassing the widest possible spectrum of human experience in the development of social robotics can be advanced.

Author : Ahmad Fakhri Ab. Nasir,Ahmad Najmuddin Ibrahim,Ismayuzri Ishak,Nafrizuan Mat Yahya,Muhammad Aizzat Zakaria,Anwar P. P. Abdul Majeed
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789813345973

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Recent Trends in Mechatronics Towards Industry 4.0 by Ahmad Fakhri Ab. Nasir,Ahmad Najmuddin Ibrahim,Ismayuzri Ishak,Nafrizuan Mat Yahya,Muhammad Aizzat Zakaria,Anwar P. P. Abdul Majeed Pdf

This book presents part of the iM3F 2020 proceedings from the Mechatronics track. It highlights key challenges and recent trends in mechatronics engineering and technology that are non-trivial in the age of Industry 4.0. It discusses traditional as well as modern solutions that are employed in the multitude spectra of mechatronics-based applications. The readers are expected to gain an insightful view on the current trends, issues, mitigating factors as well as solutions from this book.

Author : Xaviant Haze,Estrella Equino
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781939149596

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Robot Zombies by Xaviant Haze,Estrella Equino Pdf

How advanced is the technology that exists today, what are we using it for, and can machines turn on their human creators? What is transcendence and why will we all be familiar with it? Technology is growing exponentially and the moment when it merges with the human mind, called “The Singularity,” is visible in our imminent future. Can humans, limited by slow biological evolution, compete with synthetic intelligence? Science and technology are pushing forward, transforming life as we know it—perhaps even giving humans a shot of immortality. Who will benefit from this? Where did the idea of robots originate and why are humans fearful of decision-making robots that may be able to create goals and objectives, and work toward achieving them? This book examines the history and future of robotics, artificial intelligence, zombies and a Transhumanist utopia/dystopia integrating man with machine. How did it all begin, and what’s in store for humans today, in the near future, and in the distant future? Haze and Eguino explore the fascinating role of artificial intelligence from a practical human perspective and discover that the mind-altering process necessary to accept and integrate with the inevitable is already underway, molding human consciousness. 4-Page Color Section.

Author : Christoph Lischka,Andrea Sick
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839406465

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Machines as Agency by Christoph Lischka,Andrea Sick Pdf

This book supports and deepens the existing interfaces between art, science, and technology - transgressing traditional principles and styles of research, and selectively overcoming the side-by-side coexistence in favour of an integrated »laboratory of the future«. Instead of relying on traditional dualisms like nature-culture, subject-object, as well as man and machine, heterogeneous networks with humans and non-humans (Latour) are opened in shared contexts of agency. New momentary propositions are developed, meeting the complexity of discovering, exploring, and inventing - things: things which do not exist just as given beings. The artists and theoreticians can pursue using the tools and techniques of science actively - not only to comment them but also to fathom their possibilities, and employ them in their artistic and scientific projects. Machines as Agency is an artistic perspective.

Author : Ying Tan,Hideyuki Takagi,Yuhui Shi,Ben Niu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319618333

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Advances in Swarm Intelligence by Ying Tan,Hideyuki Takagi,Yuhui Shi,Ben Niu Pdf

The two-volume set of LNCS 10385 and 10386, constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2017, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in July/August 2017. The total of 133 papers presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 267 submissions. The paper were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: theories and models of swarm intelligence; novel swarm-based optimization algorithms; particle swarm optimization; applications of particle swarm optimization; ant colony optimization; artificial bee colony algorithms; genetic algorithms; differential evolution; fireworks algorithm; brain storm optimization algorithm; cuckoo searh; and firefly algorithm. Part II: multi-objective optimization; portfolio optimization; community detection; multi-agent systems and swarm robotics; hybrid optimization algorithms and applications; fuzzy and swarm approach; clustering and forecast; classification and detection; planning and routing problems; dialog system applications; robotic control; and other applications.