Robot Rock
August 10th, 2007 - by Dave
I’ve been preparing for the impending robot apocalypse for a long, long time. But I never expected the robots first move would be to take over music. That was until I saw this video of Jeremy Boyle’s duet, a self-playing guitar and drum set.
Boyle, Joan of Arc techno-rawker and experimental artist, rigged up pneumatic controls to a regular electric guitar and drum kit. The instruments are programmed to play along with each other without the presence of musicians mucking up the process. All the tubes make the guitar look like some kind of evil robot brain on extended life support. The sound is a little sparse in the demonstration videos. The fancy robot apparently hasn’t learned anything like Hot For Teacher yet but the concept is still impressive.
Jeremy Boyle is scheduled to play the chapel room of the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia on Friday August 31st. It’s not clear from the site if the robot band will be on hand for the show. And I’m not quite sure if I want it to be. Something like this is either going to blow my mind live… or it will just plain blow.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
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