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Expressive Machines (EMMI)
November 8, 2014
Expressive Machines Musical Instruments (EMMI) is a band of sonic thrill seekers, composers who have turned to the creation of novel robotic musical instruments to achieve their musical vision. Founded in Charlottesville, Virginia by Troy Rogers, Steven Kemper, and Scott Barton in 2007, the multifaceted organization operates as a composers’ collective, performance troupe, instrument design/development […]
Soundscape Architecture
November 6, 2014
Collaboration as a composer and audio analysis and visualization consultant for Karen Van Lengen’s Soundscape Architecture Project, made possible by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia. I analyzed, visualized, and transformed one minute field recordings collected by Karen in a number of iconic architectural spaces, creating composed distillations […]
MN Made
November 5, 2014
MN MADE 2014 centered around two guests: composer Troy Rogers, who lead Musical Robot workshops and presented a concert, and Zeitgeist, who led workshops and presented a concert of early electroacoustic music. MNMade is a festival celebrating, exploring, and disseminating the handmade and hands-on contemporary musical experience. The festival is especially interested in the practice […]
MARIE
November 4, 2014
MARIE (Monochord-Aerophone Robotic Instrument Ensemble) is a modular electroacoustic robotic instrument system (MEARIS) created by Expressive Machines Musical Instruments (EMMI).
Neocybernetic Carols
November 4, 2014
Neocybernetic Carols for dancer and musical robots (2013) – Troy Rogers and Katie Schetlick Dancer/choreographer Katie Schetlick and composer/instrument builder Troy Rogers imagine a distant future in which a duo of early machine music and dance specialists strive to faithfully reenact a then-ancient ritual centered around the performance of carols celebrating a culturally significant holiday […]
human+robot improvisation
November 4, 2014
Beginning in 2010, while in residence as a Fulbright Research Fellow at the Logos Foundation in Ghent, Belgium, I began working on a set of algorithms to facilitate live improvisations between robotic musical instruments and human performers. Some of the first of these human and robot improvisation performances, and a bulk of those that followed, […]
Vivisys
March 26, 2014
In the fall 2008, I collaborated with Johnson and Nataly Gattegno of Future Cities Lab to create Vivisys, an “experimental double-curved acrylic lattice vault that plays host to an extraordinary cluster of CNC prototyped metallic barnacles. A robotic soundscape, comprised of networked auroras of electron emitting cold cathode tubes, responds to interactions from the environment.” […]
Lux Brevis
March 10, 2014
Lux Brevis en hommage a Ligeti (2008), for 13 light-activated light-and-sound-emitting spinning tops. Designed and built by Troy Rogers and Ted Coffey, the tops are made from acrylic, steel and electronics. Each houses one of two varieties of amplitude-modulated circuits (“Chirpers” and “Screamers”) whose character is determined by a combination of tunable resistance and light, […]
RAVESpace
February 26, 2014
RAVESpace (Reactive, Acoustically Variable, Expanding Space)(2007) is both an interactive installation/instrument and a small-scale model for a project of architectural proportions. Tasked with creating a prototype for a kinetic, responsive building, a group of several architects and a single musician imagined a concert hall that could expand and contract according to occupancy and its environment. […]