Music Technology Group

Music Department, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology

Scott Driscoll

Bio

Scott Driscoll came to the Music Technology Group with a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering focusing on controls, and also a fair amount of coursework in computer science and electrical engineering.  Before losing all of his time to engineering school, Scott played classical and jazz piano, clarinet, and composed a bit here and there.  Scott worked on software for the BeatBugs that enables them to record live audio, rearrange, and warp it, and also the robotic percussionist project (Haile), which can listen to and interact with live human drummers.  Scott is currently involved in the development of an amateur robotics company.


Current/Recent Research

Haile is a perceptual robotic percussionist that can listen to live players, analyze their music in real-time, and use the product of this analysis to play back in an improvisational manner. It is designed to combine the benefits of computational power and algorithmic music with the richness, visual interactivity, and expression of acoustic playing. We believe that when collaborating with live players, Haile can facilitate a musical experience that is not possible by any other means, inspiring players to interact with it in novel expressive manners, which leads to novel musical outcome. (Gil Weinberg, Scott Driscoll)


Iltur

iltur is a series of musical compositions featuring a novel method of interaction between acoustic and electronic instruments with new musical controllers called Beatbugs. Beatbug players can record live input from acoustic and MIDI instruments and respond by transforming the recorded material in real time, creating motif-and-variation call-and-response routines on the fly. (Gil Weinberg, Scott Driscoll, Travis Thatcher)


Listening Machines

Listening Machines is a concert series featuring pieces by the faculty and students from Georgia Tech's Music Technology group. The concert series explores concepts of machines listening and improvisation and musical human-machine interaction. (Gil Weinberg, Jason Freeman, Parag Chordia, Frank Clark, Chris Moore, Scott Driscoll, Travis Thatcher, Mark Godfrey)


Publications

2006

Weinberg G., Driscoll S. “Towards Robotic Musicianship” Computer Music Journal 30:4, MIT Press,  pp. 28-45 

Weinberg G., Freeman J., Chordia P., Clark F., Moore C., Driscoll S., and Thatcher T. "Georgia Tech Music Technology Group – Studio Report" Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2006), New Orleans, LA

Weinberg G., Driscoll, S., Thatcher  T. “Jam ’aa – A Percussion  Ensemble for Human and Robotic Players” ACM International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH 2006), Boston, MA. 


Weinberg G., Driscoll S. “Robot-Human Interaction with an Anthropomorphic Percussionist” Proceedings of International ACM  Computer Human Interaction Conference (CHI 2006). Montréal, Canada,  pp. 1229 - 1232 


2005

Weinberg G., Driscoll S., Parry M. “Haile – An Interactive Robotic  Percussionist” Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2005). Barcelona, Spain, pp. 622-625. 

Weinberg G., Driscoll S., Parry M. “Musical Interactions with a Perceptual Robotic Percussionist”  Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN  2005) Nashville, TN, pp. 456-461. 

Weinberg G., Driscoll S. “Iltur – Connecting Novices and Experts Through Collaborative Improvisation”  Proceedings of Conference on New  Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2005), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 17-22.

Music Department, 840 McMillan St., Atlanta, GA USA, 30332-0456 TEL: 404.894.8949  FAX: 404.894.9952