MDPE.14:4.2 - Robotic Music uses simultaneous Work and performing-whole relations

In the cited Shimon work, the robot can perform Music autonomously enough to be treated as the performing Agent for the named trial. The human research team is the practice-developing Agent that selects and changes the configuration. These contributions remain different.

Visible head gesture can improve communicative legibility while timing, mechanical noise, or musical plausibility crosses an accepted limit near tempo transitions. Robot–instrument configuration, gesture-control relations, musical Work, and observer Work matter together; no universal scale stack follows.

Candidate trials include reducing gesture amplitude near difficult transitions, separating communicative motion from actuation timing, or accepting bounded timing deviation under a musical criterion that values legibility. The team chooses only after the robot edition, control architecture, safety, and evidence are stated. Results from another configuration do not rank these candidates without a supported correspondence.