Robotic instruments that could be programmed to play music, respond to human musicians, and even improvise were a source of fascination for Steven Kemper during his graduate student days. To bring to life his machine music vision, Kemper and colleagues Scott Barton and Troy Rogers founded Expressive Machines Musical Instruments, and began designing PAM. This stringed instrument’s pitches are controlled by tangents — the equivalent of fingers — each of which is driven by a solenoid.
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The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Robots
Posted by: Vivian Wagner November 13, 2013 05:00 AMRobotic instruments that could be programmed to play music, respond to human musicians, and even improvise were a source of fascination for Steven Kemper during his graduate student days. To bring to life his machine music vision, Kemper and colleagues Scott Barton and Troy Rogers founded Expressive Machines Musical Instruments, and began designing PAM. This stringed instrument’s pitches are controlled by tangents — the equivalent of fingers — each of which is driven by a solenoid.