Moritz Simon Geist started tinkering to fill a gap. “I want to have electronic music… where you can walk inside it and have this LSD experience.” “There are a lot of projects in media art that want to ...

Although many people might remember the recorder as just a simple instrument from their introductory music classes, it can nevertheless produce rich and varied melodies in the hands of a virtuoso like ...

Swedish composer Fredrik Gran programs robotic arms to play bowed instruments like the cello and double bass. He also plays duets with the robots, blurring the lines between the musician and the music ...

The next time you need a self-playing xylophone or a large robotic orchestra, Eric Singer is your man. As one of the world's leading creators of musical robots and orchestrions, robotic music machines ...

Among the largest university presses in the world, The MIT Press publishes over 200 new books each year along with 30 journals in the arts and humanities, economics, international affairs, history, ...

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Guitars, bassoons and tambourines may be headed the way of Betamax. Three University of Virginia graduate students have built a robot that performs avant-garde musical compositions. "This is the first ...

We hear it almost every day — robotic machines are getting smarter and they’re coming to take our jobs. But when we think about automation, we tend to see robots in kitchens and factories, not jamming ...

Beginning this weekend, Staten Islanders will be able to make exotic music with robotic instruments. Starting Saturday, the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden in Livingston will house a ...

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New Yorkers claim New York City to be the capital of many things: media, arts, fashion…but is the Big Apple also “robot city”? The New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) convened a panel of ...