Georgia Tech School of Music Presents:
FOREST
Saturday, December 11, 2021
7:30pm
Caddell Building
Dr. Gil Weinberg, Professor and Director of Georgia Tech Center of Music Technology
Georgia Tech Robotic Musicianship Lab
Life
Jocelyn Kavanagh
'Game of Life' or 'Life' by John Conway is the most famous cellular automaton where cells revolve through different relational states, simulating the dynamic evolution of a society of living organisms. In this piece, the powering algorithm is a variation on 'Game of Life', where each of the robots' states are mapped to gestures and musical events. Each robot's state is determined by its neighbors' states, and the states progress through the robots with a contagion effect. Because the starting states of the robots are randomized and the 'Game' can continue for any number of iterations, the piece will look and sound differently each time.
Movement
Amit Rogel
Movement looks at different ways a robot can record a human and dance with them in realtime. The piece uses a motion capture suit to record all of a dancer's gestures, and the computer maps the movements onto a robot or has the robot react with its own gestures.
Music - Nightlight by Illenium
Performer - Rima Peddi
Surge
Andrew Wang
A dance designed to reflect the unique atmosphere of Vulpey's "What We Feel." It features a middle section determined by mood detection analyzing eye blinks, employing the use of an EEG.
Music - What We Feel by Vulpe
Breathe
Nitin Hugar, Hardik Goel, Daniel Pilipenko
This piece is themed around the forest of ‘Vrindavan’ where Lord Krishna spent most of his childhood. With his musical virtuosity, Lord Krishna could communicate with the entire forest and bring it to life.
In this performance, Robots come alive to music and interact and play with live musicians. The robots listen and respond to melody, harmony and rhythm of the performers and sing/dance along with them. The tech involves real-time pitch and beat detection that trigger different movements and sounds.
Performers - Nitin Hugar, flute and Nikhil Ravi Krishnan, drum
Tourist
Rose Sun and Michael Verma
Watch FOREST come to life in this performance as the tourists interact with them using a tactile interface and computer vision. You will be listening to a Chinese EDM piece composed by Georgia Tech music technology students, while enjoying an augmented sound experience as the tourists control sound effects by moving the robot joints. The tourists will also bring out different personalities in the robots by interacting with them in fun ways.
Music - Chinese Dub by Qinying Lei and Rose Sun
Dance
Rima Peddi
This piece is an upbeat, high energy dance with the aim to highlight the interaction between human dancers and the robots. The piece is entirely pre-programmed and manually adjusted to match the dancers the robots are performing with.
Music - The Arena by Lindsey Stirling and Just Got Paid by Sigala, Ella Eyre, and Meghan Trainor
Performers - Rima Peddi, Sharnitha Sudhaher, & Meena Ajith
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