Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is my first live performance with the Echolaliator, at the Curious Sound Objects show. I played trombone, with Josh Rosenstock on guitar, beatbox, kalimba, slide whistle, etc. The Echolaliator is an interactive music improvisation system. It's about amplifying musical creativity. Echolaliator listens as you play, recording each phrase. When you pause, it responds by playing back one of your previous phrases that it thinks is related (in this version, using an analysis of pitch). When it detects a repeating rhythm, it joins in with a pattern at the same tempo, composed of sounds it has heard. Speech and other sounds are included and sometimes reappear at surprising times.
The visualization has a circle in the center, with color representing the current pitch it is hearing and size representing amplitude. Around it, a flowing graph shows the recent history of pitch and amplitude. A ring shape appears each time it records a sound, and these are arranged radially according to pitch. When it plays one of these sounds, it lights up and spins.
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This is my first live performance with the Echolaliator, at the Curious Sound Objects show. I played trombone, with Josh Rosenstock on guitar, beatbox, kalimba, slide whistle, etc. The Echolaliator is an interactive music improvisation system. It's about amplifying musical creativity. Echolaliator listens as you play, recording each phrase. When you pause, it responds by playing back one of your previous phrases that it thinks is related (in this version, using an analysis of pitch). When it detects a repeating rhythm, it joins in with a pattern at the same tempo, composed of sounds it has heard. Speech and other sounds are included and sometimes reappear at surprising times.
The visualization has a circle in the center, with color representing the current pitch it is hearing and size representing amplitude. Around it, a flowing graph shows the recent history of pitch and amplitude. A ring shape appears each time it records a sound, and these are arranged radially according to pitch. When it plays one of these sounds, it lights up and spins.
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