Haile is a robotic percussionist that can listen to live players, analyze their music in real-time, and use the product of this analysis to play back in an improvisational manner. It is designed to combine the benefits of computational power and algorithmic music with the richness, visual interactivity, and expression of acoustic playing. We believe that when collaborating with live players, Haile can facilitate a musical experience that is not possible by any other means, inspiring players to interact with it in novel expressive manners, which leads to novel musical outcome. Two pieces were composed for Haile, “Pow” for a robotic and human percussionist playing a Native American Pow Wow drum, and “Jam’aa”, for a Middle Eastern drum circle and a robotic percussionist.

This is really cool every festival should have one of these, until eventually this virtual experience can happen without us. It’s good to know that after robots destroy mankind on earth, there will still be a counter culture.

There are a bunch of videos links on the site. I recommend checking them out. I know its not possible, but I would live to have one of these than I could have my own robotic breakcore drum line. It would be like Peter Fox on Meth.

GTCMT – Thanks Grinding.be

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