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Robot Rickshaw
November 17, 2014
News Robot Rickshaw has a new cd! Featuring live human-robot improvisations with monster drummer Steve Snider. Featured robots include AMI, CARI, MADI, and the vocal robot Stemmetje. Get it now, pay what you want! Feeding of hungry robots is encouraged, as always. Limited numbers of physical copies available at shows and upon request. Robot Rickshaw […]
Expressive Machines (EMMI)
November 8, 2014
Expressive Machines Musical Instruments (EMMI) is a band of sonic thrill seekers, composers who have turned to the creation of novel robotic musical instruments to achieve their musical vision. Founded in Charlottesville, Virginia by Troy Rogers, Steven Kemper, and Scott Barton in 2007, the multifaceted organization operates as a composers’ collective, performance troupe, instrument design/development […]
MN Made
November 5, 2014
MN MADE 2014 centered around two guests: composer Troy Rogers, who lead Musical Robot workshops and presented a concert, and Zeitgeist, who led workshops and presented a concert of early electroacoustic music. MNMade is a festival celebrating, exploring, and disseminating the handmade and hands-on contemporary musical experience. The festival is especially interested in the practice […]
Neocybernetic Carols
November 4, 2014
Neocybernetic Carols for dancer and musical robots (2013) – Troy Rogers and Katie Schetlick Dancer/choreographer Katie Schetlick and composer/instrument builder Troy Rogers imagine a distant future in which a duo of early machine music and dance specialists strive to faithfully reenact a then-ancient ritual centered around the performance of carols celebrating a culturally significant holiday […]
human+robot improvisation
November 4, 2014
Beginning in 2010, while in residence as a Fulbright Research Fellow at the Logos Foundation in Ghent, Belgium, I began working on a set of algorithms to facilitate live improvisations between robotic musical instruments and human performers. Some of the first of these human and robot improvisation performances, and a bulk of those that followed, […]
EyeMusic
February 25, 2014
In 2005, I spent a summer working in the University of Oregon’s Cognitive Modeling and Eye Tracking Lab under the direction of Anthony Hornof, exploring music and multimedia performance driven by eye movements sensed in real time using an eye tracker and mapped to various control parameters. The resulting piece, created in collaboration with Anthony […]