[ExI] guitar playing robot

[Nuala Thomson]

I will definitely agree it meets wicked cool!
I'd love to see Jean Boudin join in on that song.
Thanks for sharing!



Nuala Thomson

On 03/03/2014, at 8:22, "spike" <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> Oh man, if this doesn’t meet the strictest definition of wicked cool, I just haven’t yet seen it:
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> …The song is called “Sad Robot Goes Funny.”
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> Squarepusher says the piece’s two halves mirror the robots’ grief that their fans view them as mere “entertainment machines.” Then, left alone at the end of the day, “They think back to being young robots, before they were employed in the sphere of public entertainment, and remember the silly antics they used to get up to.”
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> http://singularityhub.com/2014/03/01/squarepusher-explores-emotional-machine-music-with-78-fingered-robot-guitarist/
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> We tend to think it takes a human touch to make emotionally charged music, but Squarepusher wants to play with and maybe even disprove that assumption. And there’s no doubt, “Sad Robot Goes Funny” is interesting and even enjoyable. The piece morphs from something like chamber music into Miles Davis and Steve Vai’s android love child…
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> Oooh so cool.  It sure as hell sounds to me like this piece is being played with feeling, and it is CLEAN!  I can easily imagine playing it on the CD player in Mister Lincoln.
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> spike
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