Bruno Kramm and Doris Aschenbrenner – Robot Orchestra workshop

Three teams
Team 1: musical composition
Team 2: robots and Arduino
Team 3: AI and app development

Are you up for the musical AI challenge of a lifetime? Want to be involved in a truly unique innovation masterpiece, then join the Robot Orchestra workshop! Bruno Kramm, a musician, hacker and tech-entrepreneur from Berlin and assistant professor Human-Robot interaction Doris Asschenbrenner will lead this two-day workshop. In an experimental collaborative musical-hacker lab we’ll build and develop parts of the Robot Orchestra, presented at the Highlight Delft festival. Join us in our search for the answers to the existential questions: what makes music musical? Can robots convey the essence of a piece? What would this symphony sound like if it were composed in the 21st century, for robots?

We’ll form three teams, team 1 will consist of musical composers, team 2 are robotic engineering specialists and team 3 is filled with AI and interface designers. Together you’ll optimize the already world-famous Robot Orchestra to perform at its best the Beethoven’s 9th Symphony – the 21st Century Robotic Remix during Highlight Delft 2021. Not just the musicians in this orchestra are turned into robots, but also the conductor is digitized and replaced by AI and is app-controlled. Do you fit one of these profiles? Then join us for this workshop where we may just redefine the future of music!

Team 1) You are a composer or musician who can read sheet music and who is not afraid to push the boundaries and explore new ways of making music. You will investigate possibilities to adapt and translate the classical score to a score that can be played by robots. 

Team 2) If (You = interested in AI && music*) || or (You = interested in app-development for audience interaction in musical settings) then {please come and help us shape the robot orchestra!}. *// more specifically: denoising autoencoders (DAE).

Team 3) You are a robot builder, handy with Arduino’s, 3D printing and basics of robotics and you truly believe robots can do anything we can do (better)!

Are you up for the challenge and looking forward to joining one of these teams? Wait no longer, buy your tickets and seize a spot in your favourite team!