October 2019
Unauthorized, a collaboration between theatre/dance artist Kathryn Ricketts and Arne Eigenfeldt and an ensemble of musebots, will be presented by SFU Woodwards at the Vancouver's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, October 10-12.
Norman Adams will perform Arne Eigenfeldt's Moments: Monochromatic, as well as Indifference Engine vs. Norman Adams, while Arne Eigenfeldt will perform tinySounds in Halifax for the suddenlyListen Series.
June 2019
tinySounds: for voice and musebot ensemble, by Arne Eigenfeldt, was performed as part of “Generative Art from Past toward the Future” in Rome, Italy.
May 2019
Arne Eigenfeldt's tinySounds: for voice and musebot ensemble was performed and presented as a demo at Sound and Music Computing, Malaga, Spain.
December 2018
Nicoli Baroni performed Arne Eigenfeldt's Moments: Monophonic at the Generative Art, Verona Italy. Also presented was Moments: VR, a virtual reality version of Moments: Time and Space.
November 2018
Arne Eigenfeldt gave a talk on musebots at the Surrey Art Gallery's Turn Up the Sound Systems! symposium, as well as presenting the musebots created and performing trap music.
October 2018
Norman Adams and Nicoli Baroni performed Arne Eigenfeldt's Indifference Engine at the Venice Biennale Musica
Ambient Landscapes, a collaborative installation between filmmaker Jim Bizzocchi and Arne Eigenfeldt's musebots, was installed at IAST at the University of Lethbridge.
September 2018
Moments: Time and Space, a collaboration between Arne Eigenfeldt's musebots, Simon Lysander Overstall's visual musebot, and movement artists Rob Kitsos and Yves Candau, was presented at Simon Fraser University's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
August 2018
Arne Eigenfeldt gave a musebot workshop at ICMC in Daegu, South Korea.
Ambient Landscapes, a collaborative installation between filmmaker Jim Bizzocchi and Arne Eigenfeldt's musebots, was installed at ICMC in Daegu, South Korea.
RattleTrap, a continuous installation in which musebots generate Trap/Future Bass by Arne Eigenfeldt, was installed at ICMC in Daegu, South Korea.
July 2018
Ambient Landscapes, a collaborative installation between filmmaker Jim Bizzocchi and Arne Eigenfeldt's musebots, was installed at xCoAx in Madrid Spain.
June 2018
Andrew Brown, Daniel Field, Matthew Horrigan, and Arne Eigenfeldt spent a week in Whistler Canada working on networked musebot ensembles. Our work was presented in a concert at the Gold Saucer, Vancouver.
January 2018
Ambient Landscapes, a collaborative installation between filmmaker Jim Bizzocchi and Arne Eigenfeldt's musebots, ran for six months at the Surrey Art Gallery.
December 2017
Andrew Brown, Daniel Field, Toby Gifford, Matthew Horrigan, and Arne Eigenfeldt spent a week in Byron Bay Australia working on networked musebot ensembles. Our work was presented as a paper at NIME 2018 in Blacksburg Virginia.
November 2017
Arne Eigenfeldt gave a talk on musebots at Seattle's Max Meetup, and performed Moments: Monochromatic, and The Indifference Engine, with Matthew Ariaratnum, guitar.
October 2017
Arne Eigenfeldt‘s Moments: Polychromatic (formerly called Moments) will be presented as an installation at ICMC in Shanghai, China.
August 2017
Arne Eigenfeldt‘s Moments: Polychromatic was presented as an installation at TIES in Toronto, Canada.
July 2017
Arne Eigenfeldt‘s Moments: Polychromatic was presented as an installation at xCoAx in Lisbon, Portugal.
Arne Eigenfeldt gave a workshop on musebots at the University of Coimbra, presented by Amilcar Cardoso.
An evening of musebots interacting with live performers took place at the Gold Saucer in Vancouver, with musebots by Matthew Horrigan, Paul Paroczai, Yves Candau, and Arne Eigenfeldt. Featuring musicians Peggy Lee, Matthew Ariaratnam, Nathan Marsh, Adrian Verdejo, Barbara Adler and video artist David Storen. Promo website here. Georgia Straight article here.
June 2017
The “Byron Bay Musebots” by Andrew Brown, Ollie Bown, Toby Gifford, and Arne Eigenfeldt were presented at the MuMe concert in Atlanta as a continuously running installation.
Arne Eigenfeldt‘s Moments: Monochromatic, for musebots and live performer, was also presented.
January 2017
An electroacoustic version of Arne Eigenfeldt‘s Moments was premiered at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Art’s during the PUSH festival. All musebots control synthesis devices within Ableton Live, having learned about their timbres through pre-performance analysis. SFU News story here.
December 2016
Andrew Brown, Ollie Bown, Toby Gifford, and Arne Eigenfeldt spent a week in Byron Bay working on musebot interaction, and negotiated endings. Here are our results.
Musebots performed at the Botmancipation, in Arne Eigenfeldt‘s Moments, for Disklavier and virtual piano.
November 2016
The musebots are part of Kadenze’s new course on Generative Art and Computational Creativity by Philippe Pasquier and SFU.
Musebots performed at the Vancouver Pro Musica’s Electroacoustic Music Festival in Arne Eigenfeldt‘s Moments, for two virtual pianos.
August 2016
A “Musebot Chill-out Session” installation was presented at SMC in Hamburg, Germany. Musebots created by Arne Eigenfeldt, Matthew Horrigan, Paul Paroczai, Oliver Bown, Ben Carey, Kıvanç Tatar, Toby Gifford, Jeffrey Morris, and Si Waite were featured.
We now have Windows versions of Max musebots and conductors, thanks to Yves Candau. Available as Win32 and Win64.
July 2016
We now have a (hand-coded) description of every musebot in the Test Suite; see the Musebot menu, under Complete Musebot Listing.
A “Musebot Chill-out Session” installation was presented at NIME in Brisbane, Australia. Musebots created by Arne Eigenfeldt, Matthew Horrigan, Paul Paroczai, Oliver Bown, Ben Carey, Kıvanç Tatar, Toby Gifford, and Jeffrey Morris were featured.
“Making Musebots @ NIME: A Workshop” was presented at NIME, as an all-day workshop. Arne Eigenfeldt, Ben Carey, and Ollie Bown presented on the current state of musebots, and had folks making some of their own bots by the end of the day.
We now have new templates in SuperCollider, Python, more Max for Live musebots, as well as our first Conductor and musebots for Windows! Check out the new templates here.
We have moved the musebot repository to a WebDAV server (hello 1990s). We are now working on creating a more user-friendly interface .
MachineSongs: Moments, by Arne Eigenfeldt, was premiered at NIME. This generative work for two Disklaviers features a parameterBot that generates high-level structure, and two PianoBots that interpret this information by launching “miniBots” that interact and interpret this high-level information.
December 2015
A “Musebot Chill-out Session” installation was presented at the most recent Generative Art Conference/Festival in Venice, Italy. Musebots created by Arne Eigenfeldt, Matthew Horrigan, Paul Paroczai, Oliver Bown, Ben Carey, Kıvanç Tatar, Toby Gifford, and Jeffrey Morris were featured.
Seasons was also presented at Generative Art in Venice. The music for Seasons is generated entirely by musebots developed by Arne Eigenfeldt.
November 2015
Several musebot developers participated in the recent PROCJAM, creating some new bots and adapting older ones to the task of working with intention messages. Organized by Ollie Bown and Ben Carey, other participants included Kıvanç Tatar, Toby Gifford, and Arne Eigenfeldt. New bots available here via Dropbox.
September 2015
Seasons was presented as part of Hidden Pasts / Digital Futures festival at Simon Fraser University, celebrating its 50th anniversary. The music for Seasons is generated entirely by musebots developed by Arne Eigenfeldt.
MachineSongs was also presented as part of Hidden Pasts / Digital Futures festival at Simon Fraser University, celebrating its 50th anniversary. Musebots controlled the Notomoton (an 18 armed percussion robot), the ModulatroN (a 35 mallet marimba playing robot), and a Disklavier.
August 2015
A “Musebot Chill-out Session” installation was featured at the most recent ISEA Conference/Festival in Vancouver, Canada. Musebots created by Arne Eigenfeldt, Matthew Horrigan, Paul Paroczai, Oliver Bown, Ben Carey, and Jeffrey Morris were featured.
Musebots were featured within Arne Eigenfeldt‘s work, MachineSongs, for generative system and live performer, presented at ISEA. The work featured Vancouver improvising guitarist Daryl Jahnke, and musebots controlling the Notomoton (an 18 armed percussion robot), the ModulatroN (a 35 mallet marimba playing robot), and a Disklavier.
Musebots generate the music for Seasons, a generative work for video, music, and soundscape creation systems. Seasons was premiered at ISEA, and features a recombinant video system designed by Jim Bizzocchi, and soundscape system designed by Philippe Pasquier and Miles Thorogood, and Arne Eigenfeldt‘s musebots.
July 2015
The premiere of the “Musebot Chill-out Session” installation was featured at the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) in Park City, Utah. Musebots created by Arne Eigenfeldt, Matthew Horrigan, Paul Paroczai, Oliver Bown, Ben Carey, and Jeffrey Morris were featured.
Unauthorized, a collaboration between theatre/dance artist Kathryn Ricketts and Arne Eigenfeldt and an ensemble of musebots, will be presented by SFU Woodwards at the Vancouver's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, October 10-12.
Norman Adams will perform Arne Eigenfeldt's Moments: Monochromatic, as well as Indifference Engine vs. Norman Adams, while Arne Eigenfeldt will perform tinySounds in Halifax for the suddenlyListen Series.
June 2019
tinySounds: for voice and musebot ensemble, by Arne Eigenfeldt, was performed as part of “Generative Art from Past toward the Future” in Rome, Italy.
May 2019
Arne Eigenfeldt's tinySounds: for voice and musebot ensemble was performed and presented as a demo at Sound and Music Computing, Malaga, Spain.
December 2018
Nicoli Baroni performed Arne Eigenfeldt's Moments: Monophonic at the Generative Art, Verona Italy. Also presented was Moments: VR, a virtual reality version of Moments: Time and Space.
November 2018
Arne Eigenfeldt gave a talk on musebots at the Surrey Art Gallery's Turn Up the Sound Systems! symposium, as well as presenting the musebots created and performing trap music.
October 2018
Norman Adams and Nicoli Baroni performed Arne Eigenfeldt's Indifference Engine at the Venice Biennale Musica
Ambient Landscapes, a collaborative installation between filmmaker Jim Bizzocchi and Arne Eigenfeldt's musebots, was installed at IAST at the University of Lethbridge.
September 2018
Moments: Time and Space, a collaboration between Arne Eigenfeldt's musebots, Simon Lysander Overstall's visual musebot, and movement artists Rob Kitsos and Yves Candau, was presented at Simon Fraser University's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
August 2018
Arne Eigenfeldt gave a musebot workshop at ICMC in Daegu, South Korea.
Ambient Landscapes, a collaborative installation between filmmaker Jim Bizzocchi and Arne Eigenfeldt's musebots, was installed at ICMC in Daegu, South Korea.
RattleTrap, a continuous installation in which musebots generate Trap/Future Bass by Arne Eigenfeldt, was installed at ICMC in Daegu, South Korea.
July 2018
Ambient Landscapes, a collaborative installation between filmmaker Jim Bizzocchi and Arne Eigenfeldt's musebots, was installed at xCoAx in Madrid Spain.
June 2018
Andrew Brown, Daniel Field, Matthew Horrigan, and Arne Eigenfeldt spent a week in Whistler Canada working on networked musebot ensembles. Our work was presented in a concert at the Gold Saucer, Vancouver.
January 2018
Ambient Landscapes, a collaborative installation between filmmaker Jim Bizzocchi and Arne Eigenfeldt's musebots, ran for six months at the Surrey Art Gallery.
December 2017
Andrew Brown, Daniel Field, Toby Gifford, Matthew Horrigan, and Arne Eigenfeldt spent a week in Byron Bay Australia working on networked musebot ensembles. Our work was presented as a paper at NIME 2018 in Blacksburg Virginia.
November 2017
Arne Eigenfeldt gave a talk on musebots at Seattle's Max Meetup, and performed Moments: Monochromatic, and The Indifference Engine, with Matthew Ariaratnum, guitar.
October 2017
Arne Eigenfeldt‘s Moments: Polychromatic (formerly called Moments) will be presented as an installation at ICMC in Shanghai, China.
August 2017
Arne Eigenfeldt‘s Moments: Polychromatic was presented as an installation at TIES in Toronto, Canada.
July 2017
Arne Eigenfeldt‘s Moments: Polychromatic was presented as an installation at xCoAx in Lisbon, Portugal.
Arne Eigenfeldt gave a workshop on musebots at the University of Coimbra, presented by Amilcar Cardoso.
An evening of musebots interacting with live performers took place at the Gold Saucer in Vancouver, with musebots by Matthew Horrigan, Paul Paroczai, Yves Candau, and Arne Eigenfeldt. Featuring musicians Peggy Lee, Matthew Ariaratnam, Nathan Marsh, Adrian Verdejo, Barbara Adler and video artist David Storen. Promo website here. Georgia Straight article here.
June 2017
The “Byron Bay Musebots” by Andrew Brown, Ollie Bown, Toby Gifford, and Arne Eigenfeldt were presented at the MuMe concert in Atlanta as a continuously running installation.
Arne Eigenfeldt‘s Moments: Monochromatic, for musebots and live performer, was also presented.
January 2017
An electroacoustic version of Arne Eigenfeldt‘s Moments was premiered at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Art’s during the PUSH festival. All musebots control synthesis devices within Ableton Live, having learned about their timbres through pre-performance analysis. SFU News story here.
December 2016
Andrew Brown, Ollie Bown, Toby Gifford, and Arne Eigenfeldt spent a week in Byron Bay working on musebot interaction, and negotiated endings. Here are our results.
Musebots performed at the Botmancipation, in Arne Eigenfeldt‘s Moments, for Disklavier and virtual piano.
November 2016
The musebots are part of Kadenze’s new course on Generative Art and Computational Creativity by Philippe Pasquier and SFU.
Musebots performed at the Vancouver Pro Musica’s Electroacoustic Music Festival in Arne Eigenfeldt‘s Moments, for two virtual pianos.
August 2016
A “Musebot Chill-out Session” installation was presented at SMC in Hamburg, Germany. Musebots created by Arne Eigenfeldt, Matthew Horrigan, Paul Paroczai, Oliver Bown, Ben Carey, Kıvanç Tatar, Toby Gifford, Jeffrey Morris, and Si Waite were featured.
We now have Windows versions of Max musebots and conductors, thanks to Yves Candau. Available as Win32 and Win64.
July 2016
We now have a (hand-coded) description of every musebot in the Test Suite; see the Musebot menu, under Complete Musebot Listing.
A “Musebot Chill-out Session” installation was presented at NIME in Brisbane, Australia. Musebots created by Arne Eigenfeldt, Matthew Horrigan, Paul Paroczai, Oliver Bown, Ben Carey, Kıvanç Tatar, Toby Gifford, and Jeffrey Morris were featured.
“Making Musebots @ NIME: A Workshop” was presented at NIME, as an all-day workshop. Arne Eigenfeldt, Ben Carey, and Ollie Bown presented on the current state of musebots, and had folks making some of their own bots by the end of the day.
We now have new templates in SuperCollider, Python, more Max for Live musebots, as well as our first Conductor and musebots for Windows! Check out the new templates here.
We have moved the musebot repository to a WebDAV server (hello 1990s). We are now working on creating a more user-friendly interface .
MachineSongs: Moments, by Arne Eigenfeldt, was premiered at NIME. This generative work for two Disklaviers features a parameterBot that generates high-level structure, and two PianoBots that interpret this information by launching “miniBots” that interact and interpret this high-level information.
December 2015
A “Musebot Chill-out Session” installation was presented at the most recent Generative Art Conference/Festival in Venice, Italy. Musebots created by Arne Eigenfeldt, Matthew Horrigan, Paul Paroczai, Oliver Bown, Ben Carey, Kıvanç Tatar, Toby Gifford, and Jeffrey Morris were featured.
Seasons was also presented at Generative Art in Venice. The music for Seasons is generated entirely by musebots developed by Arne Eigenfeldt.
November 2015
Several musebot developers participated in the recent PROCJAM, creating some new bots and adapting older ones to the task of working with intention messages. Organized by Ollie Bown and Ben Carey, other participants included Kıvanç Tatar, Toby Gifford, and Arne Eigenfeldt. New bots available here via Dropbox.
September 2015
Seasons was presented as part of Hidden Pasts / Digital Futures festival at Simon Fraser University, celebrating its 50th anniversary. The music for Seasons is generated entirely by musebots developed by Arne Eigenfeldt.
MachineSongs was also presented as part of Hidden Pasts / Digital Futures festival at Simon Fraser University, celebrating its 50th anniversary. Musebots controlled the Notomoton (an 18 armed percussion robot), the ModulatroN (a 35 mallet marimba playing robot), and a Disklavier.
August 2015
A “Musebot Chill-out Session” installation was featured at the most recent ISEA Conference/Festival in Vancouver, Canada. Musebots created by Arne Eigenfeldt, Matthew Horrigan, Paul Paroczai, Oliver Bown, Ben Carey, and Jeffrey Morris were featured.
Musebots were featured within Arne Eigenfeldt‘s work, MachineSongs, for generative system and live performer, presented at ISEA. The work featured Vancouver improvising guitarist Daryl Jahnke, and musebots controlling the Notomoton (an 18 armed percussion robot), the ModulatroN (a 35 mallet marimba playing robot), and a Disklavier.
Musebots generate the music for Seasons, a generative work for video, music, and soundscape creation systems. Seasons was premiered at ISEA, and features a recombinant video system designed by Jim Bizzocchi, and soundscape system designed by Philippe Pasquier and Miles Thorogood, and Arne Eigenfeldt‘s musebots.
July 2015
The premiere of the “Musebot Chill-out Session” installation was featured at the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) in Park City, Utah. Musebots created by Arne Eigenfeldt, Matthew Horrigan, Paul Paroczai, Oliver Bown, Ben Carey, and Jeffrey Morris were featured.