Five Robots Playing Pentatonic, Polyrhythmic Songs
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Five robots playing five tuned bells by striking them with a mallet. Each robot is controlled by a minimalist, neurally inspired analogue oscillator. These oscillators are mutually connected and connected to a pacemaker oscillator, and through network connectivity, they will synchronize at different ratios with the pacemaker. Slow-running analog oscillators of the same type switch on and off the connectivity and modulate the activation of the robots' oscillators. Only through these changing network configurations does a musical score that alternates between coordinated polyrhythms, random structure and moments of silence emerges. The complex interaction between the analogue oscillators is visualized with a computer program that graphically displays the changing relations of the oscillators as multiple x-y plots.
Author: Faubel, Christian
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6930504800
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