#moritz simon geist

[krisfreedain]

(via You call that EDM? Moritz Simon Geist’s robots make the most technical techno | Ars Technica)

[sxsweveryband]

Moritz Simon Geist - “Entropy"

SXSW 2019 - OEB Score: 7; Popularity Index: 4

Pairs Well With…John Cage, Steve Reich, Steve Jobs

This is music that must be seen, not just heard. Mortiz Simon Geist performs all of his music using robots, programming based on sounds that electronics make as parts move and process. It’s a delicate science demanding understanding of rhythm, melody, and technology beyond just pressing buttons or even traditional instruments. Geist’s music feels more like a found-sound project than electronic music, but is constructed in a way that is more song than experiment.

[dadamachines]

Musical Robots playing glitch sounds

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

[moarrrmagazine]

Moritz Simon Geist - MR 808 

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!

[killekillberlin]

Krake Festival 2015: Art Exhibition

For the whole week of the Krake Festival we have set up an art exhibition at Urban Spree, an amaz­ing venue, com­bin­ing indus­trial aes­thet­ics with a sweet, per­sonal DIY flair. Please check here for the music events of the festival at Urban Spree, Suicide Circus and Berghain Kantine: https://www.facebook.com/events/1583054701968913/ ----------------------------------------------------- The following works will be exhibited or performed: DESTRUCTIVE OBSERVATION FIELD by Robert Henke A bright mul­ti­color laser beam points at a black reflec­tive sheet of plas­tic hang­ing freely from the ceil­ing. Most of the light is absorbed by the plate, turned into heat. A small part is reflected to a white screen on the oppo­site side of the room. The heat cre­ates defor­ma­tions and induces struc­tural changes of the sur­face of the plate, which leads to dynamic and com­plex reflec­tion pat­terns. The laser beam scans over the sur­face of the plate in slow ran­dom move­ments and leaves traces of destruc­tion. The light pat­terns on the pro­jec­tion screen make the process vis­i­ble. By adding more and more imper­fec­tions to the sur­face of the plas­tic plate, the result­ing pat­terns become increas­ingly more inter­est­ing until a cer­tain thresh­old is reached after which the process seems to reverse. More destruc­tion leads to less inter­est­ing results, end­ing ulti­mately after a long time with just a dif­fuse reflec­tion of light. The instal­la­tion becomes blind. Special thanks to LaserAnimation Sollinger, Berlin, for their support! MR-808 by MORITZ SIMON GEIST Sonic Robots per­form elec­tronic music — with mechanic robots! The wardrobe-sized MR-808 is a robotic drum instal­la­tion, which fea­tures eleven sounds of the infamous elec­tronic drum machine “TR-808”, which were replaced by mechan­i­cal actu­a­tors and phys­i­cal tone generators. MUSIC VIDEO LOUNGE by THE29NOV FILMS the29nov films films create a cosy situation for you to relax and have a glimpse into their endless archive of independent music videos. DISCO GHOST by Julia Drouhin This French artist liv­ing in Tasmania/Australia cre­ates choco­late records with hits from dead musi­cians, which can be heard and eaten by the audience. Performing on Tuesday daytime and Saturday night only. TESELA by ARISTIDES GARCIA (LASAL) This interactive mapping sculpture is based on geometry exploration, and how using this path can disrupt our perception. Graphical patterns, visual illusions, dynamic geometry tesselations are algorithmically generated in realtime by the system with the help of the observer. 103 paper pyramids as a canvas to play with, changing the shape constantly like in an illusory metamorphic dream. Exhibited from Wednesday onwards only. KLANGWELLE by CHRISTIAN LOSERT An installation featuring 10 motorized pendulums including 10 loudspeakers at their ends to discover the structure and spatial impact of dynamic waves within an audiovisual area. Exhibited from Wednesday onwards only. STILL DISCO/INVITATION by ANNA-LUELLA ZAHNER You are invited to experience a surreal club situation and become part of a seemingly social situation, which won't develop as expected. Since the installation can only be entered alone, please expect waiting time. Performing on Friday daytime only.

[helenedancer]

The 808 robot, for real. Thanks @dp_delaney. You did good. 

[lucesintetica]

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