Brand new drum robot commissioned by RDJ ready to go.

  On 4/26/2014 at 9:38 PM, psn said:

Someone should ask Autechre what they think of mechanically controlled acoustic percussion instruments.

Ha, I thought ae just sounded old and bitter there.

  On 4/26/2014 at 1:13 AM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

This just in: Musician too lazy to learn how to play any instruments himself, commissions robot to be built to play for him.

Hey, if it was good enough for Squarepusher...

This is a great idea. Sometimes my least favorite part of electronic music are synthetic drums that sound very cheesy when some real thwack boom tssshhhhh is the obvious better choice. I'm glad RDJ gets it. Why don't you get it Christ?

15 years ago i thought it would be cool to fill my walls with noisy things and solenoid hammers operated via midi. but i didnt do it.

yeh i've always wondered if there's any company that sells robotic midi operated doodads that you could make noises with by having them smack things or do things

but never looked

i know smart ppl can just make their own anything tho. but someone should sell a line of these types of things

  On 4/27/2014 at 3:42 AM, skibby said:

15 years ago i thought it would be cool to fill my walls with noisy things and solenoid hammers operated via midi. but i didnt do it.

i drew a supercar when i was 7. it looked cool

yeah, by extension of his logic. nobody should use synths cause it can all be done on a harpsichord

It's all about knocking rocks together mate.

hahah MIDI!

if i spent all that effort to make music robots, i would definitely invest in some anechoic chamber.

also i prescribe using 360 microphones in a circle that can be panned like the matrix film effect.

a simple pm of thanks would be nice if you use the idea Richard/Tom

Won't the anechoic chamber kind of cancel out the point of having all those mics in the room?

  On 4/28/2014 at 10:27 AM, skibby said:

if i spent all that effort to make music robots, i would definitely invest in some anechoic chamber.

 

also i prescribe using 360 microphones in a circle that can be panned like the matrix film effect.

 

a simple pm of thanks would be nice if you use the idea Richard/Tom

Don't bloody give him an excuse to delay even further. Besides, i hear that panning and cut and res on the source can achieve essentially the same results, especially if there's no resonance to worry about like in that chamber. Otherwise we'd have to be adding varying amounts of reverb/delay to it as well to achieve the same result. ;-p

I've got it: Record a drum robot inside a car while the car is being driven by a robot. You have to build a special car just to hold all the gear that is required, then build a robot to drive it. And so when you listen on headphones at home, it sounds like you're listening to music in the car. But if you listen to it in the car, it just sounds like you're listening at home on headphones. (It's all binaural of course.)

>minds blown<

  On 4/28/2014 at 5:46 PM, r2c said:

I've got it: Record a drum robot inside a car while the car is being driven by a robot. You have to build a special car just to hold all the gear that is required, then build a robot to drive it. And so when you listen on headphones at home, it sounds like you're listening to music in the car. But if you listen to it in the car, it just sounds like you're listening at home on headphones. (It's all binaural of course.)

 

>minds blown<

i have an ipod

  On 4/28/2014 at 7:38 PM, Klopjob said:

 

  On 4/28/2014 at 5:46 PM, r2c said:

I've got it: Record a drum robot inside a car while the car is being driven by a robot. You have to build a special car just to hold all the gear that is required, then build a robot to drive it. And so when you listen on headphones at home, it sounds like you're listening to music in the car. But if you listen to it in the car, it just sounds like you're listening at home on headphones. (It's all binaural of course.)

 

>minds blown<

 

i have an ipod

 

Sorry, the resulting release will, of course, only be on vinyl... Although there might be a later opportunity to buy un-mastered WAV files of the music on a website whose main page redirects you to a vinyl-buying site.

  On 4/28/2014 at 11:09 PM, phudoshin said:

 

I was surprised when Squarepusher followed Aphex down the musical robot route after Drukqs with its midi controlled piano etc and the talk of Aphex's <HAT> 1st logos thingy oh and Nanou! Maybe there's more Im not remembering.

somebody has too much money on his ass

lazy aphex gonna have robots tour for him now

  On 4/29/2014 at 1:18 AM, chops727 said:

 

  On 4/28/2014 at 11:09 PM, phudoshin said:

 

I was surprised when Squarepusher followed Aphex down the musical robot route after Drukqs with its midi controlled piano etc and the talk of Aphex's <HAT> 1st logos thingy oh and Nanou! Maybe there's more Im not remembering.

 

Misquoth

Sound travels in phasey waves and some of it is directional. Especially if a robot is equipped with an amplified instrument that is connected to a heterodyne ultrasonic electrostatic driver.

Edit...

Lol, I just realized how these robots might be a subconscious one-up over daft punque.