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Robot Band covers Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger

YEAH. MAKER GALORE. Featuring Stephen Hawkings DECtalk Vocals

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Russian Robot Guitar

 Acoustic guitar played via MIDI using solenoids and DIY electronics by Demin Vladimir.

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Pierre Bastien - Kinetic Syncopators

 Mechanical Music. Machines utilized to make sound.

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Mechanical Orchestra by cabo san roque

Steampunk galore. Awesome robotic instruments from Catalonia. 

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Sound of Noise - Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers

Everyday objects played as percussion instruments. 

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Timo Maas - Tantra

Music visualized using mechanical machines to deliver a beautiful multisensory experience. 

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Musical Robots playing glitch sounds

 robotic music instruments creating sound textures for electronic music. Build by german moritz simon geist aka sonicrobots. 

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KarmetiK Machine Orchestra

 joins California Institute of the Arts at The Walt Disney Concert Hall performing electronic music using musical robotics, a cast of musicians and new musical interfaces.

More: machineorchestra.com

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Simple but effective solenoid drum machine

 Industrial valves used as percussion instrument by CECILE BABIOLE. 

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Solenoid Drum Machine plays the house

 DIY electro-acoustic midi-controlled percussion based on PIC Microcontroller playing found objects from the trash using solenoids as actuators.

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SONIC WATER - STUDIES OF VISIBLE SOUND AND VIBRATIONS

 Stunning projections made by using sound on water as a display.

An interactive installation by Sven Meyer (Elfenmaschine & kymat.de) and Kim Pörksen (PIECE OF CAKE)

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Wireless Robotic Drums

 18 Darbuka drums played by 36 midi controlled robotic arms interfacing with an ipad.

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Roland Olbeter - Fast Blue Air Nr 1

 Midi controlled electro-pneumatic instrument playing a piece written by Elena Kats Chernin.

Elena KATS CHERNIN's Fast Blue Air, a work commisioned by FESTO, sponsor of Roland Olbeter's Electro-pneumatic instruments. This is the first of seven pieces, presented at the Hanover Fair 2007, at th FESTO stand.

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KarmetiK NotmotoN

 A musical robot consisting of an array of beaters striking two drum heads. This video shows NotomotoN being put through its paces, demonstrating some of its speed-playing capabilities.

See karmetik.com and notomoton.com for more information.

NotomotoN: Designed by Michael Darling and Ajay Kapur with Jim Murphy, Dimitri Diakopoulos, and Jordan Hochenbaum.

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Felix's Machines - Glide Installation

Beautiful robotic instruments build by Felix Thorn. Musical robots percussion - metallophone, drums and more.

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Music for hydraulic organs, mechanical satyr and artificial birds. From Kircher’s Musurgia Universalis (1650)

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Kircher’s - Musurgia Universalis (1650)

Beautiful drawing for a mechanical automata.

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Björk - All Is Full of Love

One of the most inspiring music videos due today was without question Björks All Is Full of Love. The music video was directed by Chris Cunningham a british video artist who also worked for Autechre and Aphex Twin.

Why i am posting this?

There is music. There is love. And there are robots.