The Cybernetic Trap Kit - Updated Demo

Описание: Over the course of the last four years, I have been developing a sensor-based, interactive music system that leverages emergent computer vision and machine learning technologies to create what I refer to as a virtual augmentation of the drumset. This application of technology is intended to exist as an extension of the rich and varied material development of the drumset, which evolved from a stochastic collection of one’s own personal mechanized inventions into a standardized technological assemblage used around the world in a myriad of musical styles. Once known as the “contraption kit,” the standardization of the drumset developed continuously over the course of decades, taking into account a broad range of innovations in response to the dynamic nature of the musical, social, labor requirements and material conditions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. I view the current assemblage of technologies in this project as a continuation of this history, one which combines its material and virtual components into a new engagement with drums and technology, one which can be thought of as a cybernetic “trap” kit.

The cybernetic components function as a digital overlay/interface on top of the acoustic or electroacoustic drums. Through the use of computer vision, motion-tracking technologies and an interactive music system, the drummer has the ability to process their own real-time or recorded performance by interfacing with the system's cybernetic components.

This a demo of a number of different applications using the Cybernetic Trap Kit.