{"365381":{"#nid":"365381","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Robots, student team up to create Miles Davis-inspired funk","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA Georgia Tech student has surrounded himself with a team of dancing robots and an improvising, marimba-playing bot to collaborate on an original, Miles Davis-inspired composition. Mason Bretan, a Ph.D. candidate in music technology, plays the drums, guitar and keyboard. A robot named Shimon listens to the sounds, then generates music on a marimba using its computational knowledge of jazz theory and improvisation. At the same time, a trio of Shimi robots autonomously generates dance choreographies based on a joint analysis of the music and a self-awareness of their physical constraints and abilities. The Shimis also play their own complementing music, based on a combination of Bretan\u0027s original compositions and improvisational algorithms. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O-bjTfYILPs\u0026amp;feature=youtu.be\u0022\u003EThe six-minute, high-energy funk piece\u003C\/a\u003E is called \u201cWhat You Say\u201d and is based on Davis\u2019 \u201cWhat I Say.\u201d It\u2019s the latest project from the lab of Gil Weinberg, Bretan\u2019s advisor and director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Music Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBretan created the composition after listening to Davis\u2019 1971 Live Evil album.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe brilliance of the musicians on that album is an inspiration to me and my own musical and instrumental aspirations,\u201d said Bretan. \u201cThey also set the standard for the level of musicianship that I hope machines will one day achieve. And through the power of artificial intelligence, signal processing and engineering, I firmly believe it is possible for machines to be artistic, creative and inspirational.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project was created during a span of several months at Georgia Tech. The Shimi robots analyze the music offline and generate a sequence\u0026nbsp;of movements and musical phrases that can then be performed live. Shimon, is given the chord progression prior to the performance, then figures out how to improvise with Bretan. The student will spend the next few months fine-tuning the process to allow real-time analysis and composing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA Georgia Tech student has surrounded himself with a team of dancing robots and an improvising, marimba-playing bot to collaborate on an original, Miles Davis-inspired composition.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A student and team of robots collaborate on an original, Miles Davis-inspired composition."}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2015-01-16 16:36:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:54","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"365401":{"id":"365401","type":"image","title":"Music with robots","body":null,"created":"1449245805","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:45","changed":"1475895103","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:43","alt":"Music with robots","file":{"fid":"201677","name":"screen_shot_2015-01-16_at_3.21.05_pm.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2015-01-16_at_3.21.05_pm_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2015-01-16_at_3.21.05_pm_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":335620,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/screen_shot_2015-01-16_at_3.21.05_pm_0.png?itok=lQejFvHJ"}},"137341":{"id":"137341","type":"image","title":"Shimi","body":null,"created":"1449178685","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:38:05","changed":"1475894769","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:09","alt":"Shimi","file":{"fid":"194842","name":"shimi_photo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shimi_photo_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shimi_photo_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2008690,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/shimi_photo_0.jpg?itok=9m8FKmEw"}},"365371":{"id":"365371","type":"image","title":"Shimon","body":null,"created":"1449245805","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:45","changed":"1475895103","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:43","alt":"Shimon","file":{"fid":"201676","name":"shimon.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shimon_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shimon_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2197714,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/shimon_0.jpg?itok=gaxRsYYG"}},"365361":{"id":"365361","type":"image","title":"Mason Bretan","body":null,"created":"1449245805","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:45","changed":"1475895103","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:43","alt":"Mason Bretan","file":{"fid":"201675","name":"mason.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mason_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mason_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":54998,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mason_0.jpg?itok=cnUtTsO-"}},"354831":{"id":"354831","type":"image","title":"Gil Weinberg 2014","body":null,"created":"1449245743","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:15:43","changed":"1475895084","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:24","alt":"Gil Weinberg 2014","file":{"fid":"202026","name":"weinberg_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/weinberg_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/weinberg_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":216481,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/weinberg_0.jpg?itok=pF-k8J7L"}}},"media_ids":["365401","137341","365371","365361","354831"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtcmt.gatech.edu\/","title":"Additional Information"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1939","name":"Gil Weinberg"},{"id":"1180","name":"Music"},{"id":"1356","name":"robot"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"},{"id":"71901","name":"Society and Culture"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003ENational Media Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-2966\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["maderer@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}