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[This is not the proposed project for AIG, but illustrates some of the techniques to be applied]

Simple automatic instruments are constructed from local materials and objects on site. The system learns the sounds it can make by trying out its instruments, and then uses its range of sounds to try to reproduce the rhythmic and melodic qualities of sounds such as the voices of visitors. It then loops and alters these imitative sequences into improvised compositions. (That last part's not done yet, so you won't see it in the video.)

In this example, the source audio is a bit of the soundtrack from the movie Citizen Kane, and the noisemakers are a set of found object percussion machines and an electromagnetically fretted electric guitar.

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  • gordasm 3 years ago
    I LOVE the way your mind works!
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  • Dan 3 years ago
    now I wanna see a movie clip with Machine gun fire
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  • Brian Walsh 3 years ago
    This is really quite amazing. Cheers, Ranjit!
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  • pdpl 3 years ago
    Very nice! Are you using Max to do the analysis?
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  • Mark Jensen plus 3 years ago
    awesome
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  • yeahhh 3 years ago
    Very cool!
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  • Alex Itin 3 years ago
    amazing ranjit
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