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Clarinet Wins Robotic Orchestra Competition

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the long-ways-from-virtuoso-still dept.

Sasha writes "The Australian designed robotic clarinet beat out Dutch and Finnish entries this year at the robotic orchestra competition. The researchers don't expect to replace human musicians, but are instead interested in what makes the difference between playing music well and playing music poorly. There is also a video available of the performance."

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  1. The runner-up by janek78 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A video of the second place winning guitar picking robot from the Netherlands. Sounds good to me. :)

  2. Re:Has to be said by againjj · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Which actually is (part of) the point of John Cage's 4'33". Basically, music is more that what is written on the sheet, it is also everything else's impact on the performance of what is written.

  3. Electronic orchestras by Alioth · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, I prefer this one :-)

    http://vimeo.com/1109226

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  4. No more robotic pianos by heroine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Robotic pianos have been around for over 100 years & they've never sounded as good as a human. After all this time they finally moved on to other instruments.