Technical construction
Controlling the robots and making the interface will take place as follows; the 5 robots will be connected to a computer interface card and this card is connected with the printerport of a computer. Probably four of these cards are needed in order to connect the 5 robots.

K8OOO Computer Interface Card

Instead of controlling the robots and creating an interface to do so in Visual Basic, it will be done through CPS. Floris Maathuis, a programmer, theatre technician and freelancer, is going to build a plug-in for CPS, a real-time graphical programming environment. This plug-in will make it possible to control the robots with a keyboard. Cubase will be used to record the movements of the robot made by the keyboard. Using a keyboard will make it much easier for me to create a choreography. Can't wait to get my hands on that!

When this interface has been developed, the next steps will be the making of the choreography and composing a piece of music from the sounds that are produced by the robots themselves. In this final phase the external chorographer will play an advising and coaching role. This means that there will be a number of rehearsals with the robots during which the choreographer can express his views.