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  1. Re:where ya been?! by sporktoast · · Score: 1 · on Captured! By Robots - A Musical/Mechanical Marvel?


    It's too bad Man or Astro-man? is on sabbatical.
    I expect a MoA-M? vs C!BR show would be the smackdown of the new millennium. Or maybe not.
    But at least it'd be an interesting double-bill. Maybe they could rehydrate one of the clone bands. I heard the gammas rocked!

  2. Re:don't forget by Krelnik · · Score: 2 · on Alternative Art Media?
    Along the same lines, the group Man.. or Astroman? does a song called "A Simple Text File" that is just that....a text file run through an old Apple ImageWriter II printer. (It's on their album "A Spectrum of Infinite Scale"). They've even been known to perform it "live".

    As for it getting old, well thats the nature of new forms. It takes a while for them to achieve something more than novelty. Patience!

  3. Man or Astroman! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Build Your Own Tesla Coil

    As a long time fan of Man or Astroman I've been curious about Tesla coils for a while. It looks like they are retooling their site right now, but in the past they've had a good section on them(they use a Tesla coil in their shows) and some good links to sites about Tesla coils. Its a great band anyway check'm out.

  4. Not many supercomputers have a theme song.... by EvlPenguin · · Score: 2, Interesting · on The Computer and the Skateboard

    Well, technically, neither does the EENIAC, but the best intrumental band ever did a kick-ass song called "Theme from EEVIAC" (Embedded Electronic Variably Integrated Astro Console), which is probably one of their best. If you think you'd like "sci-fi surf rock" (as I usually describe it), check it out.

  5. Re:Dr. Sbaitso by EvlPenguin · · Score: 4, Funny · on Text-to-Speech on a Low-Power Chip

    MacIntalk is older than that, and quite franky, it rocks. Man or Astroman (one of the greatest bands ever -- especially live) use it as their lead singer. Fred really can sing.

    In other news, "Man or Astroman wants all the party people.. to say.... yeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh"

    And by the way, the voice on "Fitter, Happier" (Radiohead) was actually Thom during an especially intense episode of innebriation >:P

  6. Man or Astro-man? by servoled · · Score: 1 · on TRS-80 Laptops Still Plugging Along

    On Man or Astro-man?'s (great space rock surf combo from Georgia) latest albumn, entitled "A Spectrum of Infinite Scale" they have a song made with dot matrix printers. The song is called "A Simple Text File" and is pretty cool considering what it is created on. Check it out next time you are in a mp3 pirating, ahh, I mean downloading the mp3's you own for backup reasons mood. Also check out their web page.

  7. Analog recording is not dead� by Conrad_Bombora · · Score: 1 · on Burning The Candle At Both Ends

    One of my favorite pro technologies inde bands has built their own recording studio.

    Check their site out

    http://www.astroman.com/zeroreturn/index.html

  8. ICA by babbage · · Score: 2 · on Symphony For Dot Matrix Printers
    Wow cool, this was an exhibit at the Institute for Contemporary Art in London a year or so ago, but being in Alabama I couldn't exactly attend and I was never able to find a decent web site &/or sample of the music. I'm looking forward to listening to this.

    You might be interested to know that Man or Astroman? are using the same trick on their new album, in a track called -- fittingly, A Simple Text File. Supposedly there's an mp3 of it laying around, but I haven't heard it yet.

    Friends of mine are all into this kind of music. I remember hearing about one that did more or less the same as this dot matrix stuff, only with a room full of hard drives and very precisely accessed text files & a bit of perl magic. If you find this sort of thing interesting, you might want to listen to (void).mp3 by Alex MacLean, which was 100% generated with a perl script and the logs of a mailing list, and generative.net, where people that are in to this sort of stuff congregate and exchange ideas about what art really is. All very fascinating stuff...