Comments on: Like music, with balls

Like music, with balls

billsaysthis — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:04:09 -0800

Animusic Just saw a video from thes folks as a between shows filler on PBS. Remember Herbie Hancock's robotic music video from the mid-80s? This is classical music but even cooler--no hands used in playing--endorsed by Jon Anderson and Alan Parsons.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:24:18 -0800

I saw that last week--very cool : >

By: wilberforce

wilberforce — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:40:43 -0800

I saw one of these a while back, when I got my new computer - ATI used 'Pipe Dream' for one of their demos. The neat thing about the demo, as opposed to the video, is that you can change the camera view and look around the machine while it's making the music. Pretty amazing - now I want to see someone build one. Forgotten Technology guy could do it with huge stone blocks.

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:48:51 -0800

By: freebird

freebird — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:58:58 -0800

ahhh...it's computer graphics. Not real bots playing with themselves. Cool, but... (maybe it's AxeMe material, but wasn't there a mefi post awhileback with these really beautiful robot instruments?)

By: freebird

freebird — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 01:14:03 -0800

(Oh it was these guys I think...neato!)

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:00:27 -0800

am i missing something - it just seems to be a product site. is there a link that shows this in action that i should follow? as far as i can tell, music is turned on on my computer, but there's no sound and i don't see animation.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:06:29 -0800

andrew cooke: Click on "watch video clips" in the lower right-hand corner. (or, alternatively, click here)

By: aladfar

aladfar — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:35:04 -0800

The Animusic stuff is cool - but lemurbots, my gosh that's amazing. Thanks freebird!

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 07:23:14 -0800

ah! thanks! (duh!)