Contemporary Music
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To Dream Again WORLD PREMIERE
Cybraphon
Peter Gregson
FOUND Ziggy Campbell, Tommy Perman and Simon Kirby
New Media Scotland Mark Daniels Producer
We fully expect the emotion meter of Cybraphon, the autonomous emotional robot band in a box, to go off the scale this August. Cellist Peter Gregson’s new work To Dream Again unfolds after a series Cybraphon obsessively googles itself every 15 seconds to see how popular it is. The results affect its emotional state which in turn affects its of interactions between the audience and bespoke data systems. Created especially for this world premiere, these audience interactions playing style. Twenty-five antique instruments and 60 robotic actuators then play music that FOUND has composed for each emotion. mean that each performance develops in an entirely different way in the laboratory venue and subsequently online, where it decays until Cybraphon is desperate for your attention. To cheer it up, like it on finally it can no longer be heard. Quite the matter of life and data. Facebook, follow it on Twitter, write about it on your blog, post a photo of it online, or mention it in a tweet. Peter Gregson is equally at home collaborating with some of the most exciting musicians working today (including Gabriel Prokofiev, Daníel The artist collective FOUND, which created this veritable diva of a Bjarnason and Max Richter) as he is with world-leading technologists, vitrine, has gifted Cybraphon to the nation. To mark the Edinburgh ranging from the Media Lab at MIT, Microsoft Labs and his own International Festival it joins the permanent collection of the National Google-funded incubator, The Electric Creative Colab. Commissioned by New Media Scotland, To Dream Again was developed during a six- Museum of Scotland and goes on display by the Millennium Clock in the Grand Gallery. month residency. ‘pushing the classical performance envelope’ Classical Music Supported by the Alt-w Fund with investment from the Centre for Design Informatics
The BAFTA-winning automaton was commissioned by New Media Scotland. cybraphon.com #cybraphon Supported by the Alt-w Fund with investment from Creative Scotland
Monday 19 & Tuesday 20, Thursday 22 – Saturday 24 August 9.00pm New Media Scotland
From Thursday 9 August Monday – Sunday, 10.00am – 5.00pm
Tickets £15
National Museum of Scotland
1 hour approximately
Free
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