The robotic system designed by Wilfried Stoll, in
cooperation with Festo is a device happens to be a quintet robotics able to
compose and play music. It has five robotic arms that produce sounds imitating
those of two violins, a cello, a viola and a bass. Each arm plays with a rope.
Having heard a musician playing the xylophone or a MIDI keyboard, the system
resumes the melody and fits in its own way.
A computer reinterprets the melody
before distributing it to the pseudo-instruments within the system. An electric
actuator clamps the ropes moving along the channel for the note. According to
the designers’ individual acoustic robots are linked together so they can
listen to each other.
This creation works through calculations math based on the
same rules as the Game of Life by John Horton Conway.
