Musical Robots Invade Juilliard

roboRob writes "RoboRecital, a recent concert at the Juilliard School, featured four robot performers: GuitarBot, a self-playing guitar; an automated fifty-seven rank pipe organ; a Yamaha Disklavier, a modern player piano; and ModBots, a collection of robotic percussion instruments. This New York Times article and it this Juilliard Journal article discuss it." This beats the band-in-a-box automaton at Wall Drug by a fair stretch.

Comments

Re:Took a while for the guitar to catch up, eh?

[tomstdenis]

What you are describing is a keyboard not a piano.

That's like saying Violins suck because they can't play good piano solo music or something. Different techniques for different instruments.

Besides the best part of music [not just piano] isn't just the sweet sweet notes, it's also the performers method/variation. Everyone plays slightly different and getting the performers take on something is equally cool.

Let's just say given the chance I'd rather see live performances than hi-quality super recordings.

Tom