Melody Slot Machine with RoboSax

Masatoshi Hamanaka, and Gou Koutaki

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Melody Slot Machine with RoboSax is our AI-based Melody Slot Machine that controls a robot-based RoboSax. Melody Slot Machine is a dial with the staves of music displayed on an iPad, which can be rotated to change the melody variations. The melody variations are generated on the basis of the AI-based melody-morphing method and can be partially switched to another variation without any significant change in the overall melody structure and with no musical breakdown. The microcomputer on the RoboSax receives the MIDI note from Melody Slot Machine and moves the servomotor so that the fingering corresponds to the note number.

Citation

Masatoshi Hamanaka, and Gou Koutaki. 2026. Melody Slot Machine with RoboSax. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20782030 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{nime2026_music_3,
 abstract = {Melody Slot Machine with RoboSax is our AI-based Melody Slot Machine that controls a robot-based RoboSax. Melody Slot Machine is a dial with the staves of music displayed on an iPad, which can be rotated to change the melody variations. The melody variations are generated on the basis of the AI-based melody-morphing method and can be partially switched to another variation without any significant change in the overall melody structure and with no musical breakdown. The microcomputer on the RoboSax receives the MIDI note from Melody Slot Machine and moves the servomotor so that the fingering corresponds to the note number.},
 address = {London, United Kingdom},
 articleno = {3},
 author = {Masatoshi Hamanaka and Gou Koutaki},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.20782030},
 editor = {Lia Mice and Nicole Robson and Tara Pattenden},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 note = {Live Performance},
 numpages = {3},
 pages = {9--11},
 presentation-video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Qd66uhY70},
 title = {Melody Slot Machine with RoboSax},
 track = {Music},
 url = {http://nime.org/proceedings/2026/nime2026_music_3.pdf},
 year = {2026}
}