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            <h1>Color Musically Yours. Love, Todd.</h1>

by Mira Friedlaender, Stephanie Hunt and Keith Waters
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<img src="color.jpg" border="0"><img src="color_kid.jpg" border="0">
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<i>Color Musically Yours. Love, Todd.</i>, works with the viewer to
create music. The viewer is invited to draw with color on paper which Todd
then scans. Todd converts the data from the drawings into music. Todd does
this by sensing how much light is reflected off the paper. Each color
reflects different amounts of light so Todd can convert the color-value
into musical form.
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Todd is embodied in three connected wall-mounted units.  When a
viewer/paticipant approaches Todd, it kindly stops scanning/playing  to
allow the viewer/paticipant to draw using provided markers.  Todd then 
resumes scanning interprets the new marks and colors.
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Todd robot is able to create complex musical arrangements according to the
artistic input of the viewer. The end result is a colorful "score," which
is a collaboration between the viewer and the robotic instrument/performer.
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<b>Mira Friedlaender, Stephanie Hunt and Keith Waters</b> are artists.

<h3>thanks and credits:</h3>
<i>Color Musically Yours. Love, Todd.</i> is driven by programmable brick 
technology currently in development in the Epistemology and Learning 
Research Group at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge,MA. 
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<i>Color Musically Yours. Love, Todd.</i> is also participating in the 
Interactive Music Festival  at the MIT museum April 28th, 2002
<h3>links:</h3>
<a href="mailto:artbot@mit.edu" class="link">Mira Friedlaender, 
Stephanie Hunt and Keith Waters</a><br>
<a href="http://pb.media.mit.edu" target="window" 
class="link">programmable bricks at MIT</a><br>



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