A musical framework with swarming robots. (English)
Kronland-Martinet, Richard (ed.) et al., Computer music modeling and retrieval. Sense of sounds. 4th international symposium, CMMR 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 27‒31, 2007. Revised papers. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-540-85034-2/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4969, 360-367 (2008).
Summary: In this paper, we describe an approach to a musical framework with interactions among numerous physical autonomous devices. The devices behave as metaphors of life and self-organize sounds and rhythm. Users can manipulate the system by affecting the interactions of the devices. We implemented the system as two different installations.