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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Musical Elements to Brain-Machine

Over the last few weeks, we've been building up some of the musical elements of the piece.

Now, introducing the guitar playing robot!:



We're working on tweaking the song so it sounds good. We programmed it so that as a user's attention level is high, the song will play at speed (and actually sound like real music.) Excited to see it come together...

I forgot to post this earlier, but here is a video of of early prototypes of the instrumentation. We tried playing Thermin, thumb pianos and even a flute...



An early mallet prototype for striking marimba bar elements.






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