Robot Apocalypse Update: Robotic Gamelan Descends on Chelsea Art Museum
Gamelatron takes a traditional Gamelan orchestra and replaces the well-trained Javanese with metronome-accurate computer-controlled robotic arms!
Posted 06/17/08 in Vulture
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Can Robot Bands Save the Music Business?
Sure, their lyrics may be in a made-up robot language, but so are most of Lou Reed's.
Robot-Apocalypse Update: Robot Orchestra to Perform This Saturday
This Saturday, an entirely robotic orchestra will play George Antheil’s score to the Dadaist film 'Ballet mécanique' alongside the film itself for the first time.
Posted 05/14/08 in Vulture
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ASIMO Conducts Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Robot Apocalypse Imminent
Welcome to the beginning of the end.
Posted 05/08/08 in Vulture
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Ballet-Dancing Robot: Highbrow, Despicable — and a Harbinger of the Apocalypse!
The robots' takeover of high culture is now near complete.
Posted 04/25/08 in Vulture
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Robot-Apocalypse Watch: Robot to Conduct Detroit Symphony Orchestra
ASIMO, a humanoid robot, is set to lead an orchestra in a performance of "The Impossible Dream." Start hoarding canned food.
Posted 04/15/08 in Vulture
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Robot-Apocalypse Update: The Machines Go Literary
Philip Parker, a professor of management science at Insead business school, is programming computers to collate information into custom-ordered books. In other words: He doesn't write the books, a robot does.
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