Robotic Musicianship: a symposium with Gil Weinberg and David Abbink
The exhibition Robots love Music shows how music-playing robots have evolved from a long tradition of self-moving machines. They are sophisticated performers that enable new ways of creating and enjoying music.
Robotic musicianship, Gil Weinberg observes, has the potential to advance musical art by creating novel musical experiences that encourage humans to create, perform, and think about music in novel ways. Furthermore, the development of robots that can play, listen to and improvise on music inspires novel interdisciplinary ways of research. The development of robotic musicians brings together insights and expertise from engineering, computation, music, psychology and cognition, and in turn inspires new insights in these fields. What is it that these fields have to offer to each other? What can music do for the field of robotics and robotics for the field of music?
During this late afternoon, leading expert in robotic musicianship Gil Weinberg will talk about his groundbreaking work. In 2005, Weinberg created Haile, a robot that can listen to human musicians, improvise and play along using a variety of musical algorithms. His next inventions were Shimon, an improvising robotic marimba player that can improvise like jazz masters, and Travis (also known as Shimi), a smart-phone enabled robotic musical companion that is designed to enhance listeners musical experiences.
David Abbink will take the audience on a journey, moving from a historical overview of how humans, technology and musicianship have mutually influenced each other, towards perspectives for a future where we co-operate with robots instead of being replaced by them. David has always been fascinated by how humans interact with machines, in particular how we control our body and use that to control tools or vehicles. Apart from being a professor in Human-Robot Interaction at TU Delft, he has also performed over 400 shows as a drummer in internationally touring rock bands
The symposium is organised in collaboration with Utrecht University.
Buy your ticket
Do not miss this symposium and buy your ticket above, by clicking on the yelow button.
- regular: €15,-
- student and Museumcard: €9,-
- We recommend you to visit the exhibition Robots love Music before the start of the symposium. After the symposium the exhibition is closed.
- 23 februari t/m 3 maart
Voorjaarsvakantie: muzikale familievoorstelling STOPKNOP!
23 februari t/m 3 maartVoorjaarsvakantie: muzikale familievoorstelling STOPKNOP!
- 14 februari t/m 3 maart
Volg de Robot-Trail in de tentoonstelling Robots love Music
14 februari t/m 3 maartVolg de Robot-Trail in de tentoonstelling Robots love Music
- 3 februari
Documentaire over Robot uit Robots love Music te zien in Museum Speelklok
3 februariDocumentaire over Robot uit Robots love Music te zien in Museum Speelklok
- 22 december t/m 3 maart
Kinderen eten ’s avonds voor de helft van de prijs bij stadsbrasserie De Utrechter!
22 december t/m 3 maartKinderen eten ’s avonds voor de helft van de prijs bij stadsbrasserie De Utrechter!
- 19 november t/m 3 maart
Grote interactieve robot-drummachine
19 november t/m 3 maartGrote interactieve robot-drummachine
- 21 september t/m 3 maart
Video eerste periode Robots love Music
21 september t/m 3 maartVideo eerste periode Robots love Music
- 1 januari t/m 20 november
↓ VOORGAANDE ACTIVITEITEN EN EVENEMENTEN ↓
1 januari t/m 20 november↓ VOORGAANDE ACTIVITEITEN EN EVENEMENTEN ↓
- 17 februari
Optreden Daan van den Hurk met Fotoplayer: Metropolis
17 februariOptreden Daan van den Hurk met Fotoplayer: Metropolis
- 15 februari
Exclusieve avondopening met Big Band Utrecht
15 februariExclusieve avondopening met Big Band Utrecht
- 7 februari
College met Leo Blokhuis
7 februariCollege met Leo Blokhuis