Music for robots

demo set - chamber music and electronic music

Clarinet: Daniel Pastene
Recorded at Orpheus inistitute by Juan Parra Cancino

Brachycalix

for 9 guitars

This is kind of a radical remix of Sir John Longton, His Pavan, a consort piece by rennaissance composer John Dowland. It is based on a frequency analysis of a recording of this piece, from which i retained only the most striking changes in the spectrum. As a result, much of the original harmony of the piece disappears to the background in favour of more rare spectral components.
For a composition based on a rennaisance piece, historical instruments where an obvious choise, so it is written for theorbo, harpsichord and gamba, but the sounds of those instruments are also live processed by a Pure Data patch
This piece has been premiered by Dirk Moelants (gamba), Matthias Trofaes (harpsichord), Thomas Smetryns (theorbo) and myself (laptop).

Sir John Longton, revisited

This piece for two guitars is, both on macro- and microlevel, based on the repetition of a limited number of musical elements, that are gradually built up and modulated in different parameters. The nature of the modulations is fixed in the score, but the filling-in is largely up to the performers

This piece was written for the guitar duo Saffraan.

Doskordianistick

A piece for the <Hat> robot, that was ordered by Aphex Twin from theLogos Foundation, where i work.
http://logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/HAT.html

Study #11, for <Hat>

Thintroppoinmealways is a piece for two voices and interactive electronics. The voice sounds are continuously recorded, analysed and transformed by a computer program built on GMT and Pure Data. The transforamtions of the voice sounds are then used as an answer to new sounds made by the voices. Which transformations exactly happen is partly predetermined, but is also dependent on the pitch, the volume, the rythm, ... of the voice sounds.

This piece was written for Maja Jantar and Jelle Meander.

Thintroppoinmealways


A piece for the robotic instrument called Hybr - a hybrid organ.
logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/hybr.html

Study #16 for Hybr

A piece for the Chi robot ( http://bit.ly/1TlUmF1 ) accompanied by the other robots of Logos' Robot Orchestra

Study 19, For Chi And  Robot Orchestra

a study for the 7 monophonic wind instruments of Logos' <M&M> robot orchestra
warning: may induce nausea to glissando-sensitive persons

Study #12, for robotic wind septet

A piece for the newest addition to Logos' robot orchestra: HybrLo, a hybrid bass organ

Study #20 for Hybrlo

A new spectral quarter tone piece for the Logos Robot orchestra, featuring several wind and percussion robotic instruments
http://logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/manual.html

Study #11, for <Hat>

Kristof Lauwers