AILO is an Artificial Intelligent Light Operator. It is designed to help human Light Operators in doing their light shows for live concerts or in dance clubs. Regardless how complex the light system is, which must be operated, every type of light fixtures can be used, even Videos Content Streamer or other show elements can be controlled by AILO. How is that working?
AILO is a machine learning software (Artificial Intelligence / AI) and is able to learn from its human colleague how to do a light show for music. AILO is connected to the light mixing desk the human Light Operator uses for his light show. And AILO has also a microphone or is connected to the output of the sound mixing desk as its audio input. AILO analyzes the currently playing music continously (16 times per second) and calculates musical features out of it. When the human Operator does an actions on his desk, AILO stores the current musical features together with the actions the Operator did. This is called 'Learn".
After AILO has learned several combinations of musical features and Operator actions, it is able to use its memory to re-do the actions of the human operator when it detects similar music situations, even in songs AILO never was trained for. AILO searches the best matching musical feature in its memory compared to the currently playing music and repeats the Operators mixing desk action. The comparision result must be under a certain threshold to be accepted as 'best matching' by AILO. The level of this threshold can be adjusted by the human Operator, to make AILO a little bit more fuzzy. This is called 'Play'.
Even Play and Learn can be done in parallel. AILO can replay actions fitting to the current music and the human Operator can add live new learning content to refine the memory of AILO.
The memory of AILO can be saved and used next day. This is interesting for all use cases: On a concert tour, AILO can help the technicians to operate the show to archive an equal quality over the complete time of the tour. For music clubs, AILO can operate small concerts completely on its own providing a constant show quality to the public. This is also valid for dance clubs.
AILO does not differentiate between music genres or styles. It does not know what it is listening to. The musical features are common to all types of music or songs.
AILO is a black box which is near by the mixing desk, connected to the desk by network or Midi.
On this website, you can see videos about AILO and it's features, you can read about its setup. Interesting is also the time line which tells you more about the next steps in this project.