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The Rhythmotron.

This paper describes the Rhythmotron: a percussion-centered robotic orchestrion, commissioned for the CoLABS festival in Sydney in 2017. The authors describe how they electronically reimagined the mechanical components of a cylinder piano by using a variant of the XronoMorph software, and they consi...

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Published in:Leonardo Music Journal Vol. 29; pp. 67 - 73
Main Authors: Taylor, John R., Milne, Andrew J.
Format: Article
Published: MIT Press Dec2019
Subjects:
Actuators
Piano
Robots
Robotics
Rhythm
Sydney (N.S.W.)
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