If you're lazy and fear performing, why not design a bunch of little robot players to produce a live performance whenever you want it?

"The Trons" did exactly that, and at the link we have a video of one of his performances. He even named the individual robot players so they have personalities, of a sort.

Filed under: robot band and music

Someone decided to enter a Radiohead remix contest using a comgination of the strangest musical instruments ever -- old scanners, hard drives, dot matrix printers and ancient computers!

Don't be too spooked by the computer at the beginning - the better parts come to those who are patient.

Here's another link with more videos.

Filed under: music, ancient hardware, dot matrix, scanner, and hard drives

Yamaha's new Disklavier Mark IV V 3.0 sounds like a computer product, not a piano, but there it is in the flesh and perfectly real looking. It can record sequences of music, play them back and even has a hard drive to store your tunes.

A beautiful and intriguing meld of traditional and modern, this piano has the potential to jump-start a distinctly stodgy industry.

Filed under: piano, musical instrument, and automatic