Category Archives: Saturn 3

Interview, Psychophysics Machines, Saturn 3 |

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Some words on our work on Katapultura, Croatian National Radio

We missed the date of broadcasting, but luckily the internet remembers.
So here you can listen to our interview for Katapultura, the cultural program of   HRT – Croatian National Radio by Katarina Kolega about  Izlog Festival.
Some English, more Croatian 🙂

 

          

The work is coproduced at Kontejner within the framework of EMAP / EMARE and co-funded by Creative Europe.

 

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Psychophysics Machines, Residency, Robotics, Saturn 3, Sound, Talk |

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Talking about: Robots in Music at Izlog Festival

We started the second day of the festival giving a familiar talk about our work, the last night’s Saturn3 performance and presented the Mega Tautophone that we built during the 2 week residency.

 

          

The work is coproduced at Kontejner within the framework of EMAP / EMARE and co-funded by Creative Europe.

(pictures © Tjaša Kalkan)

 

Projection, Residency, Saturn 3, Software |

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Face-Projection Experiments: Preparing for Izlog Festival – Saturn3

Preparing for Izlog Festival  and our Saturn3 Performance on 2nd May, 10:00 pm, we are experimenting with face-tracking and real time projections onto our faces.

Yesterday night we made some first tests, using infra-red light and a filter for visible light on the camera, to track the face and its landmarks in real time, while the projection was projected back onto the face, being visible for the human eye, but not for the special camera.

It’s a first idea of how it will be when the robots take over and transform Łukasz Szałankiewicz aka Zenial into one of them during the Saturn3 performance, synthesizing sound depending on his emotions.

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Interview, Psychophysics Machines, Robotics, Saturn 3, Software, Sound |

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Interview for Croatian National Radio

This evening we had a nice distraction from working: Katarina Kolega from the Croatian National Radio came to talk with us about our work, robotics in music and more.

She came at the perfect moment to see the first Mega Tautophone ready to go, could smile into the camera and let some emotions synthesize first sound experiments.

We don’t know when the interview will be broadcasted, but sure we will let you know 🙂

 

          

The work is coproduced at Kontejner within the framework of EMAP / EMARE and co-funded by Creative Europe.

 

Event, Performance, Prototype, Psychophysics Machines, Robot Anatomy, Saturn 3 |

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Saturn3: Performance on 2nd May 2018 at IZLOG SUVRE MENOG ZVUKA – Showroom of Contemporary Sound, Zagreb

Saturn3 meets Empathy Swarm

in collaboration with KONEJNER, Zagreb

As kick-off of our EMAP/EMARE Residency in Croatia this summer, we spent 3 weeks working on Emotion Recognition, Psychophysics Machines and Sound Generation.

Łukasz Szałankiewicz aka Zenial joins us to perform at Izlog Festival on the 2nd of May. He will be the first one to use our emotion system prototype live on stage as part  of our Saturn3 setup.

 

          

The work is coproduced at Kontejner within the framework of EMAP / EMARE and co-funded by Creative Europe.

 

Performance, Psychophysics Machines, Review, Saturn 3 |

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Saturn3 performance clip in Sanatorium Dźwięku 2017 Sokołowsko Synopsis Video

Our collaborator Łukasz Szałankiewicz sums it up in the interview:
“Directional speakers using robotic manipulation and all sounds obtained from magnetic fields. That’s it in a nutshell.”

More about the performance: Saturn3.

“Sanatorium Dźwięku launched in 2015 in Sokołowsko is a festival dedicated to contemporary experimental music and sound art. Its main objective is to present the phenomena and trends in the 20th and 21st centuries, maintaining the balance between traditions of experimental music and the new, still structureless tendencies.” from http://festiwal.sanatoriumdzwieku.pl/en/ .

 

[...] Lukasz Szalankiewicz and Adam Donovan counter this with their Saturn 3 showcase, merging live visuals by Katrin Hochschuh with an electronic psychoacoustic gauze generated by moving robotic tripods shifting beams of sound through an electromagnetic field.

Performance, Review, Saturn 3 |

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Saturn3 performance mentioned in The Wire

“On Location – Festivals, concerts, clubs: Sanatorium Dźwięku“ by Richard Jonson

in The Wire – October 2017 (Issue 404) p. 82