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
Ugly machines, beautiful music.
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.