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First Intercontinental Musical Jam Session Between Humans in Japan and Robot in USA

Posted: December 7th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: ZOOZbeat - Events, ZOOZbeat - News | Tags: , | No Comments »

レッツZOOZそれを、ペレス！(Let’s ZOOZ it up, Shimon!)

ZOOZbeat Founder and Chief Technology Officer Dr. Gil Weinberg will jam live from SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 emerging technologies conference in Yokohama, Japan December 16-19, 2009 with Shimon; an autonomous robotic marimba player at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology that he created. At SIGGRAPH Asia, musicians and non-musicians will also ZOOZin’ it with Shimon.

Robotic Marimba Player Shimon

Robotic Marimba Player Shimon

Shimon is designed to create inspiring human-robot musical interactions that lead to novel musical experiences and outcomes.

“Shimon combines computational modeling of  music perception, interaction, and improvisation with capacity to produce melodic and harmonic acoustic responses through choreographic gestures. Shimon, therefore, listens like a human and improvises like a machine,” says Gil.

For a video clip demonstrating Shimon’s improvisational abilities, Click Here. For Shimon’s new social robotic head demonstration, Click Here.

If you are a ZOOZbeat Musician that lives in Yokohama or will be attending SIGGRAPH Asia 2009, please email: dan@ZOOZmobile.com.

Editor’s Postscript (12/23/09) • Media and Blog Coverage

Robert Siegel of National Public Radio (NPR) All Things Considered Interviews Dr. Gil Weinberg (Transcript)

Shereen Meraji of National Public Radio (NPR) All Tech Considered: Robot Music: Play It Again, Shimon

Patrick Jarenwattananon NPR: A Blog Supreme/NPR Jazz: A Robot That Improvises Like Thelonious Monk

My Amplog Blog by Ed Webb: Play that jazzy music, metal boy

Atlanta Hip-Hop Artist Street Lotto ZOOZin’ with Marimba Playing Shimon (The Robot)