The Rhythmotron

Taylor, John R.; Milne, Andrew J.

doi:10.1162/lmj_a_01066

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The Rhythmotron

John R. Taylor

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John R. Taylor

John R. Taylor (researcher), MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia. Email: [email protected].

JOHN R. TAYLOR is an Australian composer and new media artist and a research fellow in music cognition and computation. His research and creative practice are primarily concerned with the perception and production of percussive timbres. Further information may be found at www.johnrtaylor.net.

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Andrew J. Milne

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Andrew J. Milne

Andrew J. Milne (researcher), MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia. Email: [email protected].

ANDREW J. MILNE is a musician, music software designer and senior research fellow in music cognition and computation. In his research capacity, he develops computational models of music perception and uses these models to shed light on human cognition, to drive creative musical outputs and to inform the development of educational tools for mathematics and music. His music software can be downloaded from www.dynamictonality.com.

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John R. Taylor

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John R. Taylor (researcher), MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia. Email: [email protected].

JOHN R. TAYLOR is an Australian composer and new media artist and a research fellow in music cognition and computation. His research and creative practice are primarily concerned with the perception and production of percussive timbres. Further information may be found at www.johnrtaylor.net.

Andrew J. Milne

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4688-8004

Andrew J. Milne (researcher), MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia. Email: [email protected].

ANDREW J. MILNE is a musician, music software designer and senior research fellow in music cognition and computation. In his research capacity, he develops computational models of music perception and uses these models to shed light on human cognition, to drive creative musical outputs and to inform the development of educational tools for mathematics and music. His music software can be downloaded from www.dynamictonality.com.

Received: July 18 2018

Online ISSN: 1531-4812

Print ISSN: 0961-1215

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Leonardo Music Journal (2019) 29: 67–72.

https://doi.org/10.1162/lmj_a_01066

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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 consider the synergy between algorithmically generated rhythms in a digital environment alongside its analogous mechanical counterpart. The authors detail the idiosyncratic behaviors of linear actuators when used to power drumming robots, and they discuss the aesthetic implications of the Rhythmotron.

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