Bruno Zamborlin | |
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| Bruno Zamborlin in 2018 | |
| Born | August 1983 (age 41–42) |
| Alma mater | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Occupation(s) | Chief Executive Officer Entrepreneur Artist |
| Known for | Mogees, HyperSurfaces |
Bruno Zamborlin, PhD (born 1983 in Vicenza) is an Italian AI researcher and entrepreneur based in London, UK.
He is considered a pioneer in the field of converting physical objects into touch-sensitive, interactive surfaces using vibration sensors and Artificial Intelligence.
In 2013 he founded Mogees Limited, the London-Los Angeles based start-up whose products enable users to transform everyday objects into musical instruments and games using a vibration sensor and a mobile phone (100,000 units sold worldwide).
In 2017 he founded HyperSurfaces, a technology platform which converts physical surfaces of any material, shape and form into data-enabled, interactive surfaces using a vibration sensor and a coin-sized chipset.
As an artist, he produces art installations around the world and performs with UK-based electronic music duo Plaid (Warp records).
Early life & education
Zamborlin was born in Vicenza, Italy. After attending a degree in Mathematics between University of Padua (IT) and Liacs (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, NL), he enrolled in a master degree in Computer Science in University of Bologna (IT) which he has been awarded with summa cum laude.
He worked at the music technology centre Tempo Reale in Florence between 2004 and 2005, developing several software for computer-aided music composition for kids of age 6-18.
In 2008 Zamborlin moved to Paris, where he lived for 3 years. During this time he has been working at the IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination Acoustic Musical) – Centre Pompidou as a member of the Sound Music Movement Interaction team.
Under the supervision of Frederic Bevilacqua, he started experimenting with the use of Artificial Intelligence and human movements. He contributed to the creation of Gesture Follower, a software used to analyse body movements of performers and dancers in order to control sound and visual media in real-time. Different gestures could trigger different media as well as slowing and speeding up their reproduction based on the way such gestures are performed. An example of productions based in the Gesture Follower can be found here and here.
In 2011 Zamborlin relocated to London, where in 2013 he was granted a joint PhD between Goldsmiths, University of London and IRCAM - Centre Pompidou/Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris 6 in AI with the title 'Designing for Appropriation of Digital Music Technology'. The PhD focuses on the concept of Interactive Machine Learning applied to digital musical instruments and performing arts. The jury panel included Reactable's inventor Sergi Jorda.
Business career
In 2013 Mogees is a London-based company founded by Zamborlin ... converts objects into ...
has been used by Rodrigo y Gabriela, Jean Michel Jarre and Plaid.
In 2017 bruno founded hypersurfaces
Art installations
Selected talks
- Transforming everyday objects into musical instruments, TEDx Brussels, 14 November 2012
- How vibration can turn any object into a data enabled interface, TEDx San Francisco, 3 October 2019
Selected awards
- IRISA Prix Jeune Chercheur, 13 October 2012
- NeMoDe, New Economic Models in the Digital Economy, 25 October 2012
TED MIT Technology review Award - 30 best entrepreneurs under 35 Qwartz Electronic Music award IRISA Prix Jeune Chercheur NEMODE - New Economic MOdels in the Digital Economy Laval Virtual.
Selected publications
- Method to recognize a gesture and corresponding device TODO
- Continuous Realtime Gesture Following and Recognition. Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 5934), 2010.
- Modular musical objects towards embodied control of digital music. TEI '11: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction, January 2010 Pages 9–12
- Online Gesture Analysis and Control of Audio Processing. Part of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics book series (STAR, volume 74), 2011.
- Fluid gesture interaction design: Applications of continuous recognition for the design of modern gestural interfaces, 2014. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent SystemsJanuary 2014 Article No.: 22
- Grainstick: A Collaborative, Interactive Sound Installation. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 2010
- Extracting Human Expression For Interactive Composition with the Augmented Violin, International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), 2012
- On SPAWC: Discussion on a Musical Signal Parser and Well-Formed Composer, 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2009, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
- (LAND)MOVES. Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, NIME, May 2011, Oslo, Norway. pp.537-538
References:
- ^ An Interview with Bruno Zamborlin (23 June 2014)