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Compared to a standard musical instrument or passive musical interface, the robot introduces three additional features.
Typically, physical interaction with a user is not allowed, since the robot behaves as a completely autonomous musician rather than a musical interface.
"I was very interested in making a musical interface that made rhythm more accessible," O'Reilly tells The Creators Project.
This way the user becomes a human harp and the bridge becomes a musical interface in what Mainstone calls "architecture converging with the body".
It all adds up to a jaw-dropping performance that marries projection mapping with a Kinect-hack, resulting in a body-controlled musical interface.
First budding its roots as a project of Sihwa Park in collaboration with AIM (Audio and Interactive Multemedia Lab) in 2010, the KAMPO app is a musical interface that sends OSC messages via wifi.
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Dr. Trevor Pinch, a scholar of science and technology studies at Cornell University, sees the point about possibilities, but he is doubtful that musical interfaces will revolutionize the way music is created and performed.
The use of these robots as platforms to test metaphors for music creation could also give birth to unconventional musical interfaces, half robots, and half instruments, directly inspired by robotic experimentation in music research.
Dr. Paradiso's group has designed other musical interfaces, including the Expressive Footwear, a pair of dancing shoes.
Since musical interfaces are designed to be used by musicians, we paid much attention to the reactions and to the comments made by the artist during all the different parts of the interface development and music creation processes.
The code has already been ported by developers outside our research group to other musical interfaces, such as the Haken Continuum17 [48], the Madrona Labs Soundplane18, and the ROLI Seaboard [49]19.
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