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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.
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.
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 use of compliant robot manipulators as bidirectional tangible musical interfaces is a new and largely unexplored field of research, and the successful design and implementation of a simple but operational platform for live performances encourage us to pursue further research in this direction.
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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.
It all adds up to a jaw-dropping performance that marries projection mapping with a Kinect-hack, resulting in a body-controlled musical interface.
This way the user becomes a human harp and the bridge becomes a musical interface in what Mainstone calls "architecture converging with the body".
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