ABSOLUTELY GREAT!
Let's get physical: MR-808 is the first drum robot that reproduces the drum sounds of the 80s - in the real world. The robot installation MR-808 is a replica of the famous 1980s electronic drum machine TR-808 – with robots playing the drum sounds! I (Moritz Simon Geist) have been playing electronic music for several years now, and at some place I was bored of the electronic music production process. With binary logic, everything is possible. So I decided to go back to the roots of sound generation – the physical sound generation – but combine it with the electronic music structure we like so much. I liked the idea so much, that I couldn’t stop building my own drum robots, and ended up replacing all the electronic sounds of a whole drum computer, placed in a 3,3 x 1,7m² case. I am very proud to present the “MR-808” – a mechanic replica of the famous 1980s electronic drum machine TR-808! Read on: sonicrobots.com/mr808-eng/ --- MR-808 - mechanic sound robot (all drums, miced) A mechanic relay controlled via arduino (bass sound) Gameboy - Arduinoboy hardware (8 bit chiptune sound) Everything was programmed in Ableton, only equing and compression has been applied. ---
Filmography: David Campesino Music: Moritz Simon Geist