The OMax project is based at Ircam with collaborations from UCSD, CNSMDP and EHESS.<br />OMax is a technology that allows a virtual musical agent to learn straight from the musicians playing live and to develop its own musical discourse in dialog with the musicians based on stylistic and timbral imitation.<br />In the "OMax and the Quintet" project, a virtual omax musician, hybrid between a sax and a trumpet, sneaks in ral-time into the mix and interacts with the other musicians.<br /><br />See http://omax.ircam.fr<br /><br />SoMax is a new OMax research thread developed by Laurent Bonasse-Gahot in the context of the IRCM ANR Project SOR2.<br />Based on corpus machine learning it generates improvised accompaniment to any kind of inputs (midi, audio, monodic, polyphonic) in the form of augmented rendering (harmony, voicings, orchestrations)<br /><br />In the "OMax and the Band" session at "Jusqu'au bout de l'impro" (CNSMDP / Radio France) on Oct 10 2012,<br /><br />- on "Intuition" OMax reimprovises the whole quintet, and at some point there is a double quintet playing. At the beginning there is an intro by free co-improvisation between Carine Bonnefoy at the piano and OMax. The virtual quintet enters at 14'58.<br /><br />- on "Gentle Cat" OMax plays a hybrid sax/Tpt virtual instrumentists that sneaks into the mix at several points and interact with the musicians (hint :check the scenes showing only 2 loudspeakers on stage, e.g. at 3'18, 7'45, 9'00 etc.)<br /><br />- on "SoMax" SoMax interacts with the saxophonists and provides real time improvised harmonic augmentation of the input<br /><br />OMax the virtual improviser is an Ircam / RepMus team project, with contributinons by G. Assayag, G. Bloch, M. Chemillier, B. Lévy, S. Dubnov, L. Bonnasse-Gahot
