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Set designer and robot artist Roland Olbeter has created a series of electro-pneumatic sound machines capable of performing entire string quartets.

The first commissioned composition for the robotic instruments was Elena Kats-Chernin’s Fast Blue Air, which takes advantage of the range of noises created by the pneumatics.

via WFMU

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2 Responses to “Roland Olbeter’s Electro-Pneumatic Instruments”  

  1. 1 McKlain

    Ugly machines, beautiful music.

  2. 2 synthhead

    McKlain – yeah – they are sort of ugly – but they are fascinating like those educational movies they used to have on Mr. Rogers & Sesame Street that took you inside a factory and showed you how loaves of bread or hot dogs were made.

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