Music in Motion (as of 2012)
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Rhythmic flight of multiple quadrocopters
Imagine a handful of flying vehicles that move in rhythm to music. They fly through the three-dimensional space in a coordinated and precisely-timed fashion. The music choreographs their motion: a flying music show.
We aim for a novel visual musical experience [1]: a dance performance featuring multiple flying vehicles, which move in synchrony with the music and perform flips, eights, circles and other aggressive maneuvers timed with the beat of the music. The Flying Machine Arena, a cubic indoor flight space, forms the stage, and small autonomous quadrocopters are the actors of this performance.
We envision an expressive multi-media flight performance that is automatically composed and controlled, given a random piece of music. Our goal is to be able to quickly process any arbitrary piece of music and translate it into choreography that reflects the music’s character.
