absolut quartet
a musical experience by Jeff Lieberman and Dan Paluska, february 2oo8
DESCRIPTION
Absolut Quartet, a commission for the Absolut Visionaries project, is a music making machine like no other. The audience becomes part of the performance, while watching something that appears impossible.
Log in to quartet.cc for a chance to interact with the machine. You will enter a 4-8 second theme, and the machine will generate, in real-time, a unique musical piece based on the input melody you have provided.
You will see this melody played by three instruments. The main instrument is a ballistic marimba, which launches rubber balls roughly 2m into the air, precisely aimed to bounce off of 42 chromatic wooden keys. The second instrument is an array of 35 custom-tuned wine glasses, played by robotic fingers. Finally, an array of 9 ethnic percussion instruments rounds out the ensemble.
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Originally inspired when Dan and I saw the video 'Pipe Dream,' from AniMusic, and we felt the need to make it real.
CREDITS
| Musical Software | Roberto Aimi |
| Illumination and Communication | Sean Stevens |
| Algorithmic Composition | Jay Flower Bradley Kemp |
| Wine Materials Science | Orian Welling |
| Engineering Intern | Cha-Ling O'Connell |
| Lead Factory Workers | Rony Kubat Jamie Rollins Bill Washabaugh |
| Custom Glass Tuning | Brien Engel |
| Graphic Design | Neri Oxman |
| Custom Microphones | K+K Sound Systems |
| Custom Marimba Elements | Marimba One |
