We’ve been posting a lot lately – here’s a quick digest of the top posts from the last week, in case you missed them: NSFW: Controversial Avant Garde Electronic Music: Blow Job 4 Posted on Friday, December 19th, 2008 in Music Videos – Comments: (10)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWhMG5Hjj6k This is a new version of Wojciech Kosma’s Blow Job, which… Read More Popular Posts On Synthtopia From 15th December – 21st December
Three Pieces is a composition for plants, yangqin, bamboo robot and robotic chimes. The electroacoustic music installation is designed as a collaboration between robots, traditional instruments, and living things, housed in Victorian Palm House of the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. A traditional Chinese dulcimer is played by a robot with many bamboo fingers while the surrounding… Read More Beautiful Electroacoustic Music Installation
Robot Films‘ entry for the Moby “Ooh Yeah” video competion: “Filmmakers are invited to submit their films for the track Ooh Yeah and the winner, chosen by moby, will win the $10,000 prize money and have their video used as the official music video for Ooh Yeah from Moby’s latest album, Last Night.” Ooh Yeah!… Read More Moby’s Ooh Yeah Invasion
Surachai‘s video capturing the creating of a ThingamaKIT synth monster.
Roboclarinet is a robotic clarinet player, designed by a team from UNSW and NICTA, that has won first prize at an international orchestra competition. The robot, which performed The Flight of the Bumblebee and Bolero in the final, beat a Dutch developed guitar-picking robot and a Finnish piano-playing machine. Staged in Athens, the goal of… Read More Roboclarinet
[display_podcast] David Byrne is keeping busy. While he just opened his audio installation Playing the Building, he’s working on a new project, involving animatronic robots. Byrne explains: About a year ago, I was approached by some Spanish curators to participate in a show scheduled to open at the Museo de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid… Read More David Byrne’s Creepy, Amazing Voice Of Julio
Recently, we mentioned that one of Honda’s Asimo robots was scheduled to “conduct” the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The appearance was intended to attention to the DSO’s youth music programs, and particularly DSO’s effort to encourage and support involvement of children in Detroit. And to let people see a cool robot in action. It doesn’t look… Read More Asimo Robot Conducts Detroit Symphony Orchestra
This video, via BBTV, is really pretty strange. At the 2008 Bent Festival for experimental electronic music, Xeni encountered Krach der Roboter (“Noise Robot”), who offers a message of peace, crackers, and chaotic tonal algorithms for all mankind. “Why do humans love robots so much?” Xeni asks. “Actually, people love animals, babies, and robots,” Krach… Read More Bizarre Circuit Bending Video
Set designer and robot artist Roland Olbeter has created a series of electro-pneumatic sound machines capable of performing entire string quartets. The first commissioned composition for the robotic instruments was Elena Kats-Chernin‘s Fast Blue Air, which takes advantage of the range of noises created by the pneumatics. via WFMU
This is a little off-topic, interesting just the same: Honda’s ASIMO humanoid robot will be “conducting” the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) at a concert performance with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma at 8 p.m., Tuesday, May 13. Honda hopes ASIMO’s appearance will draw attention to the DSO’s youth music programs, and particularly DSO’s effort to encourage… Read More Honda’s ASIMO Robot To “Conduct” The Detroit Symphony Orchestra
