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Watch this Kazakh pop video for the maximum weirdness of Casio’s singing robot keyboard
Look, I don’t want to say that Casio missed a marketing opportunity here and buried the lede on their awesomely bizarre singing robot keyboard. I’m just saying watch this video and you tell me. It comes from Kazakhstan’s star Imanbek, and getting them one of these keyboards represents in my mind one of the greatest […]
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Here’s how Mouse on Mars are using robots to expand their band
Analog and digital? That’s just a small slice of the pie. The post-digital / post-analog world uses those two ingredients but adds others, like biological, photochemical, optical, and perhaps most importantly, kinetic. Instead of electrifying screens and circuits, then, you can also make stuff move. Mouse on Mars, in collaboration with the Sonic Robots project […]
Peter Kirn - May 15, 2017
Music Music tech
Watch a Flying Drone Play a Drum Machine
What happens when you cross drones with music? Well – some seriously complex routings, for one. Stay with us: A touch-sensitive quadcopter that sends information to a Linux machine running ROS–the Robot Operating System–that then sends information over a network to a macbook running Ableton Live 9 and Max. Somewhere in this chain, the information […]
Robots, Mimicking Bees, Cover a Room in a Drawn, Unbroken Line
Peter Kirn - January 14, 2013
Archive Motion Music tech
A Robot Paints with Light, in New Daedelus Music Video
Peter Kirn - September 26, 2012
Archive Motion Music tech
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