Creative Tech Week

Artist and composer Aaron Taylor Kuffner speaks about his Gamelatron Project, and how they merge the modern and the ancient. Gamelatrons are sound producing kinetic sculptures presented as site-specific installations, and stand alone art works. Gamelatrons adapt traditional bronze, brass and iron instruments from Indonesia's gamelan tradition with robotic mallets in wall-mounted and free-standing sculptures. The robots are connected to a network that transcribes digital compositions into an array of electrical pulsations that results in a ghostly musical automaton.

Gamelatrons create sanctuaries in public and private spaces. Kuffner views this body of the work as an offering to the observer.