GoGo Musebots

Generative music performance video of jazz trio and robotic instruments.GoGo Musebots is a co-creation between a generative system and its creator, as well as three improvising musicians. The system is routed in composition rather than improvisation, in that plans are created, then filled in by musical agents (musebots) by creating a score; musebots can edit their individual parts, making decisions based on global structures and local events by other musebots. The final score is translated into MIDI information – to be performed by robotic instruments – and lead-sheet notation – to be performed by humans.All titles are generated by algorithm, selecting word combinations from Samuel Beckett’s The Unnameable.