This project aims at creating an Opera for robots, music and light : design and realization of a multimedia system based on robots and drones for artistic performance (music, choreography, stage design, light, etc.), and design of a performance to be given in both countries.
Artistic team : Mikel Arce (Sound Art), Enrike Hurtado (Software Sound Art), Natalia Monge (dance), Josu Rekalde. (coordinator), Natxo Rodriguez (Art on the net).
Scientific team : Nadine Couture (ESTIA, LaBRI), Myriam Desainte-Catherine (LaBRI / SCRIME), Serge Chaumette (LaBRI), Olivier Ly (LaBRI)
Scientific and technical objectives (LaBRI and ESTIA)
- Sound : unlike lots of research projects studying the spatialization of sound by the use of mobile loud-speakers, this project proposes to study the rendering and perception of mobile sound sources in 3 dimensions, by embedding loud-speakers in drones and robots.
- Time / space : assisted design of a multimedia choreography in 3D implies to study coordination between media and crash prediction, especially in an interactive context.
- Robots : building of robots equipped with loud-speakers and microphones, extension of the range and the location precision. — Computer Human Interface : study the interaction possibilities with this new system made of several drones and robots. The engineer becomes "the director of the robots- actors"
Artistic objectives (University of Bilbao)
- Social interactivity : transfer of the art and technology to a performative cultural activity.
- Sound Interactivity : study and research of the interaction between the movements of the robots/drones and the public, through the sound localization (spatialization). An alternative is to design specific metabots so that they produce a percussive music of their legs on a floor ad hoc — Light Interactivity : study of light sequences projected on moving objects.
- Research in creation and sound spatialization : study of new artistic possibilities with a swarm of sound sources.
- Creation of an opera for robots, sound and light in a closed area (for example CAPC in Bordeaux or Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao) involving ten metabots and three drones.
Project demonstration
More photos of the project here !