Moritz Simon Geist’s robots make technical techno

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Post by Tomte » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 8:41 AM UTC

Moritz Simon Geist’s robots make technical techno
arstechnica.com

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Post by wazoox » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 8:17 PM UTC

Well Pat Metheny has been doing similar things, building "sonic machines" for years. He also brings them on stage at least since the "Orchestrion" album.

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Post by stevehiehn » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 8:20 PM UTC

Well that was awesome!

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Post by mrspeaker » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 8:23 PM UTC

wazoox wrote: post #2

Well Pat Metheny has been doing similar things, building "sonic machines" for years. He also brings them on stage at least since the "Orchestrion" album.

Not quite the same, but Squarepusher x Z-Machines came to my mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkUq4sO4LQM

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Post by stevehiehn » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 8:25 PM UTC

wazoox wrote: post #2

Well Pat Metheny has been doing similar things, building "sonic machines" for years. He also brings them on stage at least since the "Orchestrion" album.

Captured by robots is also a really fun take on the idea :)

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Post by renholder » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 8:32 PM UTC

Related Nigel Stanford video. https://youtu.be/bAdqazixuRY

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Post by Mizza » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 8:37 PM UTC

My favorite example of this ever: https://vimeo.com/93923609

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Post by cronix » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 9:05 PM UTC

No, I don't really call that EDM. I'd call that Industrial. Nice job!

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Post by pacomerh » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 9:53 PM UTC

mrspeaker wrote: post #4

wazoox wrote: post #2

Well Pat Metheny has been doing similar things, building "sonic machines" for years. He also brings them on stage at least since the "Orchestrion" album.

Not quite the same, but Squarepusher x Z-Machines came to my mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkUq4sO4LQM

This is a good reference. I love that you guys mentioned Metheny and Tom Jenkinson, these are two of my biggest influences and favorite musicians. Have you seen what Lars Dietrich does with 'Lucy'? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzW6IbggtY8

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Post by AndrewKemendo » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 10:06 PM UTC

The article makes it seem way more automated than it is. In that sense this is one of a handful of folks doing this and a really exciting time for avant garde music in my opinion. It's increasingly popular in the industrial music genre.

There's a long history of this arguably starting with Kraftwerk and spanning genres including some of the amazing things bjork has made.

On my constant playlist is author and punisher who is an engineer by day and makes his instruments from scratch:

https://youtu.be/Sdx0vvHxrzQ