drumFunny - percussive comedy & music humor » Marimba http://drumfunny.com Percussive comedy and music humor including videos, pictures, original rudiments, and other original content Tue, 11 May 2010 04:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Circular MIDI Marimba http://drumfunny.com/2009/12/15/circular-midi-marimba/ http://drumfunny.com/2009/12/15/circular-midi-marimba/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:42:11 +0000 Chris Leone http://drumfunny.com/?p=2322
By deconstructing a perfectly normal marimba, rigging a circular 3 octave marimba, and hooking up a labyrinth of MD24 MIDI decoders, Larry Cotton has managed to create the first MIDI programmed instrument that actually sounds like, well, an instrument.

Thanks, Keith

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“The stage debut of Shimon, the robotic marimba player. Also, the world first human-robot rendition of Duke Jordan’s “Jordu”, for human piano and robot marimba.

The robot listens to the human play and tries to match its beat, sync, and themes. It uses choreographic gestures to generate both motion and sound.”

On a side note, can anyone identify the Robot’s mallet series of choice? 


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Thanks, Amy!

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Chelsea requested recognition for sending in this video, so here you go Chelsea…

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