Percussive aerophones are configurable, modular, scalable, and can be constructed from readily-available materials. They can produce rich timbres, a wide range of pitches and complex polyphony. Their use by humans, famously by the Blue Man Group, inspired us to build an electromechanically-actuated version of the instrument in order to explore the expressive possibilities enabled by machines. The Music, Perception, and Robotics Lab at WPI has iteratively designed, built and composed for a robotic percussive aerophone since 2015, which has both taught lessons in actuation and revealed promising musical capabilities of the instrument.

Creator

• Walter, Andrew
• Sane, Tanuj
• Baker, Linda
• Sundberg, Karl
• O'Brien, Alex
• Barton, Scott

Keyword

• Sound and Music Computing
• Applied Computing
• Computer Systems Organization
• Robots
• Performing Arts

Date created

• 1/1/18

Resource type

• Conference Proceeding

Event

• 18th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Extent

• 4 pages

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International

Last modified

• 2020-09-28