[ExI] Shimon, robot musician

[Dave Sill]

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2017/02/02/shimon/

https://youtu.be/l9OUbqWHOSk

You know the singularity has arrived when the robots start playing
marimbas. Shimon, engineer Guy Hoffman’s robot musician, doesn’t play
programmed music — it improvises in ensembles with human players,
communicating with a “socially expressive head” and favoring musical ideas
that are unlikely to be chosen by humans, so as to lead the performance in
genuinely novel directions.

“The project, therefore, aims to combine human creativity, emotion, and
aesthetic judgment with algorithmic computational capability of computers,
allowing human and artificial players to cooperate and build off each
other’s ideas,” notes the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology,
Shimon’s patron. “Unlike computer- and speaker-based interactive music
systems, an embodied anthropomorphic robot can create familiar,
acoustically rich, and visual interactions with humans.”

More at Georgia Tech. <http://www.gtcmt.gatech.edu/projects/shimon>

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<http://www.gtcmt.gatech.edu/projects/shimon>

Well, surprisingly, it doesn't totally suck. Of course it remains to be
seen how good it really is.

-Dave

<http://www.gtcmt.gatech.edu/projects/shimon>
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