Chant-sensitive ballrobots

HMV is a board game, created in 2001 by ///fur/////, with which players move semi-autonomous ball robots by making sounds. Form and gravity collude with voice, board and chance. The spheres are autonomous robots that have been created to listen to a certain pitch and starts to move if the right frequency is hummed or sung.

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The initial setting does not provide rules. The players get involved and slowly experience strategies and goals.

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Marcellina and Gesine van der Grinten will give a singing performance with His Master’s Voice in Kranenburg (Germany) in October and the works will be shown again at CYNETart_04areale, a festival for computer based art held in Dresden (GER) on November 17-21.

Other ///fur/// works: Vroom vroom, Inside a flipper and The Painstation.