Fibres Out of Line

Fibres Out of Line is an interactive art installation and performance. The installation consists of 10 autonomous musical robots. Jennifer Gerry will improvise a ?10 minute dance performance with the robots during the performance. Jennifer is in California, while the robots are in Oslo. Both Jen and the Robots will join a Zoom session to see, hear, and respond to one another.

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Three cute and fluffy Dr. Squiggles robots.

Robot with red hatFibres Out of Line is an interactive art installation and performance for the 2021 Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop (RPPW). Visitors can watch the performance and subsequently interact with the installation, all remotely via Zoom.

Setup

The Fibres Out of Line installation consists of 10 autonomous musical agents, set up as shown in Figure 1.

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Figure 1: The setup for the Fibres Out of Line installation and performance.

There are eight Dr. Squiggles musical robots that play acoustic sound and two software agents that play sound through speakers. These break down as follows:

  • Dr. Squiggles
    • 2 Glockenspiel Robots
    • 3 Tapping Robots
    • 3 Pipe Organ Robots
  • Software Agents
    • CAVI
    • RAVI

More general information about how these agents are constructed and behave can be found in the following videos and