Banquet
Banquet 
RO-MAN2009 banquet will be held at ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel (18:20-21:00, September 30 2009)
Special Show RoboMusic
World Music Award winning remix musician Funkstar De Luxe and Professor Henrik Hautop Lund join forces to create extraordinary interactive live performance and composition of RoboMusic. Novel modular playware instruments such as the I-BLOCK cubes allow the remix artist to make spectacular performances and even allow anybody in the audience to join in and participate actively in electronic remix concerts.
RoboMusic defines a novel genre of music. In RoboMusic, music is composed using robotic instruments, music is recorded based on playing robotic instruments, and concerts are performed with robotic instruments. In the form shown by Kasper Falkenberg and Professor Henrik Hautop Lund, the robotic instruments are simple, modular playware cubes, but the concept can expand to more ‘robotic’ instruments. Here, a robotic instrument is programmable instrument that by its interaction with the surrounding through sensors and actuators can be used for playing a variety of tunes. Through communication, robotic instruments can be used together to orchestra an ensemble. If left untouched by human (or environmental) interaction, the robotic instrument will behave with its own performance composed by the music artist. When a human or other environmental subject interacts with a robotic instrument, the instrument may change performance from its normal autonomous behaviour.
The artistic and technological challenge of the music artist is to compose baseline behaviour of the robotic instruments and compose the behavioural response to interaction by human musicians. The music artist is transformed from a composer of static music tunes to a developer of robot behaviours – behaviours that are expressed by the robotic system as music pieces. Music compositions are transformed from being static to become dynamic; music compositions are transformed from being static nodes to become robotic behaviours.
In a RoboMusic concert, the artist (or audience) is manipulating the robotic instruments to allow the robotic behaviour to change, and thereby the music tune to diverge. In the case of the instruments being modular playware cubes, this can be through the physical reconfiguration of the cubes during the concert, so that the musical expression at a given moment is defined by the cubes’ rotation and how they attach to each other.
RoboProfessor Henrik Hautop Lund is known world-wide for his work in bringing robotics to use in novel ways. His approach is to combine modular robotics and modern artificial intelligence to create novel solutions to problems that occupy the citizens of the World – often in a playful way. He has won numerous international titles and awards for his robotics research, including the RoboCup Humanoids Free Style World Championship 2002. His team developed the ATRON shape-shifting robots, which he presented to the emperor of Japan, HM Queen of Denmark, etc. His team has developed playware with the novel intelligent playgrounds, and engaged in the development of intelligent artefacts, I-BLOCKS, for the teaching of creativity in Africa, where his team were one of the driving forces behind the first science park in East Africa (in Iringa, Tanzania). He is full professor at the Technical University of Denmark.
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