Self-playing guitars in Tampere - AAAI project
Channel: Alexander Refsum Jensenius
Date: 24/10/2019

The self-playing guitars developed at RITMO, University of Oslo, are based on sending digital sound into the acoustic bodies of the guitars. The performance piece described in this short documentary is based on the concept of entrainment. Each of the guitars produce a tone with a certain frequency. By listening to the other guitars, they aim at synchronizing their tones to those of the other guitars. If left alone the guitars will entrain perfectly to each other, but if they are moved around they will tend to drift apart. In the concert the performers therefore aimed at moving the guitars in such a way that the guitars would never properly entrain to each other, but rather create a complex rhythmic pattern. 

Performers: 

Alexander Refsum Jensenius
Cagri Erdem
Qichao Lan
Julian Peter Fuhrer 
Victor Evaristo Gonzalez Sanchez
Agata Zelechowska