Robot Films‘ entry for the Moby “Ooh Yeah” video competion:
“Filmmakers are invited to submit their films for the track Ooh Yeah and the winner, chosen by moby, will win the $10,000 prize money and have their video used as the official music video for Ooh Yeah from Moby’s latest album, Last Night.”
Ooh Yeah! Babes saving [...]

Surachai’s video capturing the creating of a ThingamaKIT synth monster.

Roboclarinet is a robotic clarinet player, designed by a team from UNSW and NICTA, that has won first prize at an international orchestra competition.
The robot, which performed The Flight of the Bumblebee and Bolero in the final, beat a Dutch developed guitar-picking robot and a Finnish piano-playing machine.
Staged in Athens, the goal of the Artemis [...]

David Byrne is keeping busy.
While he just opened his audio installation Playing the Building, he’s working on a new project, involving animatronic robots.
Byrne explains:
About a year ago, I was approached by some Spanish curators to participate in a show scheduled to open at the Museo de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid at the end of [...]

Recently, we mentioned that one of Honda’s Asimo robots was scheduled to “conduct” the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
The appearance was intended to attention to the DSO’s youth music programs, and particularly DSO’s effort to encourage and support involvement of children in Detroit. And to let people see a cool robot in action.
It doesn’t look like human [...]

This video, via BBTV, is really pretty strange.
At the 2008 Bent Festival for experimental electronic music, Xeni encountered Krach der Roboter (”Noise Robot”), who offers a message of peace, crackers, and chaotic tonal algorithms for all mankind.
“Why do humans love robots so much?” Xeni asks.
“Actually, people love animals, babies, and robots,” Krach replied. “But animals [...]

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

This is a little off-topic, interesting just the same: Honda’s ASIMO humanoid robot will be “conducting” the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) at a concert performance with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma at 8 p.m., Tuesday, May 13.
Honda hopes ASIMO’s appearance will draw attention to the DSO’s youth music programs, and particularly DSO’s effort to encourage and [...]