Intelligent Instruments for Musical Expression

Four instrument builders on the road from an idea to hardware that works, including the parts that take years and never appear in the launch video.

Gianfranco Ceccolini of MOD AUDIO spoke about building open, Linux-based hardware for musicians. Julian Moreno Motta of Birds on Mars showed machine learning applied directly to instruments. Achillefs Sourlas presented Autobeat and the wider axart toolset, and Mark Moebius demonstrated Nagual Sounds, where movement becomes the instrument.

Held at Riverside Studios, the one edition we have run there.