Robots aren't taking over the planet yet, but they are doing jobs in more and more places: hospitals and offices, movie sets and battlefields. They're making a mark in the world of music, as well.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

ATLANTA (WTVR) — A 24-year-old man may have thought his days behind the drums were over after he lost the lower part of his right arm in a terrible accident. But some remarkable robotic technology is ...

Five years ago, musician and engineer Eric Singer founded LEMUR, the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots. Since then, he’s developed more and more complex creatures, and his “orchestra” will ...

Robotic instruments that could be programmed to play music, respond to human musicians, and even improvise were a source of fascination for Steven Kemper during his graduate student days at the ...

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Self-playing pianos are so last year. How about a robotic acoustic-gusli? [Dmitry Morozov] calls it the Turbo-Gusli or Gusli-Samogudy. A Gusli is perhaps the oldest Russian multi-stringed instrument, ...

First ping-pong. Now this? Tom Jekinson, better known by his DJ alter ego Squarepusher, partnered with a Japanese robot band known as Z-Machines to put out a five-song EP called Music for Robots. And ...