[Applause]
[Music]
inspired by this beautiful music I would
like to start by asking you to imagine
the connections between music and flying
I think one immediate connection comes
to my mind
music transports our souls very high
right but would it be possible to have
musical notes literally taking off
that’s inspired by this question that I
would like to start by sharing with you
a few ideas on how music art and
engineering can be brought together
through the use of drones drones are
pervasive in our lives nowadays they can
be used for several applications from
agriculture to search-and-rescue to
filming delivering packages just to name
a few in fact recently drones have
delivered blood to patients in remote
areas of Rwanda therefore potentially
saving human lives we all know that
drones they fly their flying machines
and flying has always fascinated people
throughout history one person that was
particularly fascinated by flying was
Leonardo da Vinci who lived from 1450 to
to 1519 he was born in Italy died in
France though not of the Vinci was an
observer of nature and was a very very
smart person
he observed birds flying and he took
careful notes in his sketchbooks his
famous sketchbooks what people sometimes
don’t know is that he was also believed
to be the first one to design and sketch
a helicopter one of the first designs of
a helicopter was catch by livin on da
Vinci very see in the picture
besides being fascinated by flying
Leonardo was also very well known artist
as you all know he was a painter he was
a sculpture and he did several drawings
that are included in his famous
notebooks one of those drawings is the
so called Vitruvian Man
Vitruvian comes from Vitruvius was an
Roman architect that studied ideal
proportions for human bodies so if
Leonardo were to leave today do you
think you’d be interested in drums I
think you would and I don’t think I’m
the only person because recently the
Vitruvian Man gave origin to a fly test
design of a drone so from there for the
rest of the talk I would like to share
with you the ideas that we have been
pursuing in my lab at the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering of
Concordia University see I’m a very
privileged person because I have the
pleasure of working with very creative
students a group of multidisciplinary
students from engineers to visual
artists and people with background in
music technology so what we decided to
do in the lab was to mount an LED which
stands for light emitting diode on top
of a drone and have it fly in a dark
room with this we use the technique
that’s called light painting so light
painting is obtaining photographs from a
source of light that moves in space and
we had a camera mounted on the ceiling
with large exposure time and we got
fascinating pictures with the drone
moving around these are called leisure
figures some of them very very complex
some of them might remind you of Celtic
knots but they are certainly very very
interesting pictures now I’d like to
pause here for a second and perhaps go
on to music and try to connect to this
so if a drone can fly trajectories s
these so be such beautiful trajectories
could you associate these trajectories
with music and if so how would we do
that
here’s one idea what you were looking at
now is the circle of nodes in western
music there are 12 nodes if we
equispaced them in a circle we obtain
the circle of nodes make sense so if a
musician is playing a note of C or doe
we could program a quadrotor drone or
any other drone to hover
over the note of C in the position of
the note C if the musician then switches
to an e for me then we could program the
controller to move a la along the circle
to the position of E so this is a
possible idea to have circle
trajectories as the music is being
played and I would like to be very clear
here this is reacting to real-time music
it’s reacting to improvised music we
don’t know what the person is going to
play but we can program the drone to
react in a given way to the notes that
are being played so if you look at this
in 3-dimensional space you see a circle
the give great advantage of all one of
the great advantages of drones is that
they can move freely in 3d space in six
degrees of freedom in fact so they can
reach places where for example dancers
could not and we can imagine pause
potential choreographies of drones to
the sound of music for example another
idea would be to unfold this circle into
a helix where if you’re playing in
higher octaves then the drone will go
higher and would fly at lower altitudes
for lower octaves or simply we could
just have a straight line and have the
drone fly higher for higher pitches and
lower for lower pitches so I’d like to
show you based on these ideas a little
video of the work we’ve been doing in my
lab so if you could please play the
video are you going to see in this video
is the drone flying at the sound of this
music the play button is in the lower
left part of this slide and playing at
the sound of music with three different
trajectories so again it’s three three
different videos with the same music and
the play button is in the lower left
of the slide and so one of the
trajectories is just as you see here so
you see in one of the circles
on your top right is the circle
on your bottom right you see a pendulum
motion
and in the middle you see just a pure
straight line
[Music]
this is essentially guitar hero with
drones to wrap it up I’d like to show
you a slide with all of these ideas
combined together we can think of each
idea as a letter in an artistic alphabet
and it’s up to the artist to combine
these letters into sentences that make
artistic sense depending on the
choreography so you can have straight
lines you can have circles you can have
conic surfaces you can have helisas
lisa who figures imagine your favorite
band performing in montreal with drones
flying around you can have also multiple
drones in the circle of nodes one drone
per node that is being played so if you
play in a piano accord with three nodes
and we have three drones one in each
note if we could imagine a future
interaction of humans and machines
through art and music then I think the
future of human machine interaction will
be a brighter future thank you very much
you
[Music]
inspired by this beautiful music I would
like to start by asking you to imagine
the connections between music and flying
I think one immediate connection comes
to my mind
music transports our souls very high
right but would it be possible to have
musical notes literally taking off
that’s inspired by this question that I
would like to start by sharing with you
a few ideas on how music art and
engineering can be brought together
through the use of drones drones are
pervasive in our lives nowadays they can
be used for several applications from
agriculture to search-and-rescue to
filming delivering packages just to name
a few in fact recently drones have
delivered blood to patients in remote
areas of Rwanda therefore potentially
saving human lives we all know that
drones they fly their flying machines
and flying has always fascinated people
throughout history one person that was
particularly fascinated by flying was
Leonardo da Vinci who lived from 1450 to
to 1519 he was born in Italy died in
France though not of the Vinci was an
observer of nature and was a very very
smart person
he observed birds flying and he took
careful notes in his sketchbooks his
famous sketchbooks what people sometimes
don’t know is that he was also believed
to be the first one to design and sketch
a helicopter one of the first designs of
a helicopter was catch by livin on da
Vinci very see in the picture
besides being fascinated by flying
Leonardo was also very well known artist
as you all know he was a painter he was
a sculpture and he did several drawings
that are included in his famous
notebooks one of those drawings is the
so called Vitruvian Man
Vitruvian comes from Vitruvius was an
Roman architect that studied ideal
proportions for human bodies so if
Leonardo were to leave today do you
think you’d be interested in drums I
think you would and I don’t think I’m
the only person because recently the
Vitruvian Man gave origin to a fly test
design of a drone so from there for the
rest of the talk I would like to share
with you the ideas that we have been
pursuing in my lab at the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering of
Concordia University see I’m a very
privileged person because I have the
pleasure of working with very creative
students a group of multidisciplinary
students from engineers to visual
artists and people with background in
music technology so what we decided to
do in the lab was to mount an LED which
stands for light emitting diode on top
of a drone and have it fly in a dark
room with this we use the technique
that’s called light painting so light
painting is obtaining photographs from a
source of light that moves in space and
we had a camera mounted on the ceiling
with large exposure time and we got
fascinating pictures with the drone
moving around these are called leisure
figures some of them very very complex
some of them might remind you of Celtic
knots but they are certainly very very
interesting pictures now I’d like to
pause here for a second and perhaps go
on to music and try to connect to this
so if a drone can fly trajectories s
these so be such beautiful trajectories
could you associate these trajectories
with music and if so how would we do
that
here’s one idea what you were looking at
now is the circle of nodes in western
music there are 12 nodes if we
equispaced them in a circle we obtain
the circle of nodes make sense so if a
musician is playing a note of C or doe
we could program a quadrotor drone or
any other drone to hover
over the note of C in the position of
the note C if the musician then switches
to an e for me then we could program the
controller to move a la along the circle
to the position of E so this is a
possible idea to have circle
trajectories as the music is being
played and I would like to be very clear
here this is reacting to real-time music
it’s reacting to improvised music we
don’t know what the person is going to
play but we can program the drone to
react in a given way to the notes that
are being played so if you look at this
in 3-dimensional space you see a circle
the give great advantage of all one of
the great advantages of drones is that
they can move freely in 3d space in six
degrees of freedom in fact so they can
reach places where for example dancers
could not and we can imagine pause
potential choreographies of drones to
the sound of music for example another
idea would be to unfold this circle into
a helix where if you’re playing in
higher octaves then the drone will go
higher and would fly at lower altitudes
for lower octaves or simply we could
just have a straight line and have the
drone fly higher for higher pitches and
lower for lower pitches so I’d like to
show you based on these ideas a little
video of the work we’ve been doing in my
lab so if you could please play the
video are you going to see in this video
is the drone flying at the sound of this
music the play button is in the lower
left part of this slide and playing at
the sound of music with three different
trajectories so again it’s three three
different videos with the same music and
the play button is in the lower left
of the slide and so one of the
trajectories is just as you see here so
you see in one of the circles
on your top right is the circle
on your bottom right you see a pendulum
motion
and in the middle you see just a pure
straight line
[Music]
this is essentially guitar hero with
drones to wrap it up I’d like to show
you a slide with all of these ideas
combined together we can think of each
idea as a letter in an artistic alphabet
and it’s up to the artist to combine
these letters into sentences that make
artistic sense depending on the
choreography so you can have straight
lines you can have circles you can have
conic surfaces you can have helisas
lisa who figures imagine your favorite
band performing in montreal with drones
flying around you can have also multiple
drones in the circle of nodes one drone
per node that is being played so if you
play in a piano accord with three nodes
and we have three drones one in each
note if we could imagine a future
interaction of humans and machines
through art and music then I think the
future of human machine interaction will
be a brighter future thank you very much
you
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