NakagawaGakki‘s Lunetta Guitar is a modular controlled ‘semi-acoustic’ robotic synth guitar, designed to integrate with other modular gear.
Here’s what NakagawaGakki has to say about the Lunetta Guitar:
The Lunetta Guitar uses no computers nor microcontrollers, all circuitry is CMOS discrete analog designed freeform, space wiring style… no toxic circuitboards. Physically patchable with cables, no coding.
This self generating patch is acoustically recorded with Binaural microphones to pickup the spacio-harmonic sounds that swirl around this instrument. If you wear headphones it gives you the impression your head is inside the Guitar.
The synth-guitar just continues to spit out quite complex, evolving (algo)rhythms like this all day long, all by itself!
Check it out and let us know what you think of the idea of integrating music robots with modular synths!
You are great at wasting time and resources. Sounds like a robot farting.
You’re entitled to your opinion – but it’s not very useful feedback to tell somebody that their work sounds like farts.
The idea of incorporating acoustic sound generation into modular synthesizers seems very creative and like it could be really fun to work with. It also seems like a logical ‘next step’ for synthesis to incorporate electronically controlled acoustic devices.
See Jazari’s videos for examples of sequenced robotic instruments used in live music performances.
Danger, Will Robinson! I had Taco Bell for breakfast – Clear the area!
take a look on this….
http://zmachines.jp/archive.html
No farting robots here. I’ve heard ‘composed’ pieces that were less interesting than this. Nor any waste of resources – it takes commitment to take a bunch of what are effectively ‘surplus’ components (all electronic components sold to individuals are effectively surplus to industrial needs) and to use them as creatively as this. Also, whether successful or not, this is not a waste of time – posting comments like Yourdad’s are a waste of time.
This is a wonderful piece of creative DIY ethic / art / musical endeavour / sculpture, call it what you will, with some real thought (I love the ‘no circuit board’ philosophy!) that I wish I’d thought of. Electronic windchimes on a grand scale. Oh dear, now we’re back to ‘wind’ references again.