Max/ MSP lets you Keepon Dancing
A friend of mine sent me a link to the WIRED-sponsored video of this adorable, Peeps®-like dancing robot that’s miles above and beyond that swaying guitar-playing flower you got as a birthday gift in the late 1990s. Needless to say, I was both instantly charmed and impressed with Keepon’s moves and spot-on sense of rhythm, and wondered a bit about the mechanics of its internal workings.Thankfully Create Digital Music has spared me the hours of Googling and served up photos of his interior as well as demystified his creator’s choice of software-hardware interaction: Max/ MSP. Cycling74’s paramount platform has not only been used to program the mind-warpingly complex beats of IDM, it allows for physical interaction, making not only Keepon possible, but projects as diverse as the Musical Soccer Ball and music responsive lightshows enabled by Jitter.PS: The track is “Don’t You Evah” by Spoon. ;-)
[Thanks, Dan!]
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Posted by Liz |
Keepon is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen! These robots can take over our society any day…
This is also one of the best music videos I have seen in a long time.
September 21st, 2007 | #
Keepon sold me on Spoon so I went and bought that track. :mrgreen: I bet they weren’t even aware of the subtle advertising power of cute lil robots.
September 21st, 2007 | #
Powerful indeed is the marketing clout of marshmallow robots if it can convince you of all to people buy a *gasp* ROCK song…
Don’t you know they use GUITARS in that stuff?! : )
September 26th, 2007 | #