JUST TYPED ALONG WITH THE SESSION SO EVERYTHING IS STILL PRETTY MESSY, NO LINKS INCLUDED AND POSSIBLE FAULTS ARE MY OWN RATHER THAN THE SPEAKERS,…
panelists: Trimpin, Godfried-Willem Raes, Gordon Monahan, en Jaques Remus
http://www.gordonmonahan.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimpin
http://www.mecamusique.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfried-Willem_Raes
Q: Is musical robotics a novelty or something really serious?
JR – gives you a orchestra without paying musicians
- it’s about making acoustic music with electronics
- it’s about building interfaces for real instruments, not synthesizers and computer music.
- To have pure acoustic sound: music made for machines but that no loudspeaker can reproduce and no people can make
GWR – It’s not something new but what is new is the programmability: this is a real novilty
GM – we’re inventors that other musician pick up,.. there is a fine line then between us and the other musicians
T – All composers composed for machines but it was not accepted and it never came to the public. But all composers composed for it.
Q: there is a current explosion of interest, at least here in NY,.. s this shortlived or the future?
GWR – I don’t feel an explosion: there are few people doing serious work in this field. There is a lot o amateurism: In order for somthing to be a robot it must have some form of sensor. either of it’s internal state, or more advanced: a sensor for there environment in which they ‘live’. That makes it into a robot. It’s not just something mechanical.
Q: well there is artbot etc and some more teaching in the field
GWR: I’m sure it’s gonna grow
JR – We’re a lot of things at the time: multidimensional artists: time (music), space (visual), performers (stage)
T – interdisciplinary institutions in the university failed because the different departments didn’t understand each other.
Q: tips to get started
GWR – get the book “the art of electronics”, also get a good workshop
T – start simple,.. with small things and then grow,.. do it all yourself, get nothing “off the shelf”, be patient
JR – first a dream, then the tools
GM – you can also buy things of the shelf,.. for me it works
GWR: get the tool for the purpose in stead of turning the tool into the purpose
Q: How do you make it so human?
QWR: there is nothing as human as a machine
