because we haven’t had a good robot band in awhile.
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December 6, 2010 by abulafia
the trons robot band – time’s up
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July 13, 2010 by abulafia
the trons – times up
who doesn’t like a little michel gondry with their robot band
Video by Snakebeings filmed in Matangi dairy factory. The Trons are a robot band made by Greg Locke. Some animation has been used in this video but the Trons play all the music on electric guitar and drums and keyboard. Vocals are made using a special vocal–tape deck built into the singer’s control unit. The robots are actually playing the song in the video although the actual song has been overdubbed afterwards- lip-synch robots! The great benifit of making a video of robots is that they play the music the same every time-in theory at least- although due to the flexibility of meccano there is a human feel in the slight delays.
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May 13, 2010 by abulafia
creepy video of talking robot mouth
- thanks to c.dubya for sharing the weirdness
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April 20, 2010 by abulafia
scrap metal robot band – lemur
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February 19, 2010 by abulafia
jazari – one human, three machines, rhythm
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February 7, 2010 by abulafia
robotic gamelan
A video on Casa da Música’s Robotic Gamelan, developed by myself, José Luís Azevedo and Miguel Ferraz in 2008/09. It started as an evolution of ‘Lula’ – vimeo.com/1379563 . The sound is awful, sorry about that!
A network of several independent robots play some of the javanese gamelan instruments: 2 bonangs, 2 demungs, 3 kenongs, 1 saron, 2 peking and 1 slentem, some gongs and an additional slentem in the near future. This network is controlled by a computer sending serial information using Max/MSP.
In this specific case, all the robots are being played using custom controllers made out of an Ikea salad bowl, an Arduino and two ultrasonic distance sensors.
Robotic Gamelan from Rui Penha on Vimeo.
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January 28, 2010 by abulafia
autonomous emotional scottish robot band
Inspired by early 19th century mechanical bands such as the nickelodeon, Cybraphon is an interactive version of a mechanical band in a box.
Consisting of a series of robotic instruments housed in a large display case, Cybraphon behaves like a real band. Image conscious and emotional, the bands performance is affected by online community opinion as it searches the web for reviews and comments about itself 24 hours a day.
A needle oscillates between desolation and delirium, measuring Cybraphon’s happiness as it monitors its popularity in Google, friend invitations on Facebook and comments to its MySpace page.
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January 27, 2010 by abulafia
pat metheny – orchestrion pt. 2
mr. metheny’s put out another video of his work with the robot orchestra. this one goes into more detail, shows more of the robots, talks about how they’re controlled. still pretty cool.
related posts: pat metheny – orchestrion
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January 22, 2010 by abulafia
KarmetiK Machine Orchestra
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KarmetiK Machine Orchestra – REDCAT Preview from karmetik on Vimeo.
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January 13, 2010 by abulafia
Machinarium Soundtrack Vinyl Edition
no word yet on how to pre-order, but for those looking to show abulafia some love, he’s got a birthday in february and yellow is one of his favorite vinyl colors.
related post: machinarium soundtrack
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