[BeallCenter] *JazzBot* Performance w/ Kei Akagi // Beall Center 3/18

[Indi McCarthy]

The Beall Center for Art and Technology

presents

JazzBot

A performance of jazz piano and robotic musical instruments
Featuring Kei Akagi, piano

Wednesday March 18, 6:00 PM - FREE
Beall Center for Art and Technology


** Seating is limited; for reservations phone 824-4339 **


Jazz pianist Kei Akagi of the UCI Music Department will give a brief 
performance in live interaction
with a collection of robotic musical instruments. The robotic instruments, 
designed by LEMUR
(the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots), are currently installed as 
an exhibition in the
Beall Center for Art and Technology. Mr. Akagi will provide a demonstration 
of realtime musical
interaction between man and machines, using music composed by, and 
musically intelligent
robotic behavior programmed by, UCI professor Christopher Dobrian.

The 20-minute performance will be followed by a question-and-answer session 
with professors
Akagi and  Dobrian and LEMUR founder Eric Singer.

Kei Akagi is professor of Jazz Composition and Performance in the UCI Music 
Department. Christopher
Dobrian is professor of Composition and Technology, and director of the 
Gassmann Electronic Music
Studio and the Realtime Audio Research Laboratory. The LEMUR exhibition is 
ongoing at the Beall
Center through March 19, 2005.

Mr. Akagi will perform on a Yamaha Disklavier grand piano, with generous 
support from the Yamaha
Corporation of America, the Gassmann Electronic Music Studio of UCI, and 
the Beall Center for Art
and Technology.

http://beallcenter.uci.edu
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
University of California, Irvine