On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:46 PM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:28:58PM -0700, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
>
>> YouTube - the Trons - self playing robot band
>> <http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c2JChnwv2Ws&feature=related>
>> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c2JChnwv2Ws&feature=related
>>
>> This may not feature the clarinet you seek.  But it's still pretty good.
>
> So is the somewhat excessive repetiveness of the music just a feature of
> the limited capabilities of the guitar playings.  Although, even the
> drum is just playing a simple pattern over and over again.
>
> It may be midi-syndrome.  People who don't play an instrument tend to do
> a poor job of making tracks for them, drums especially.

Somehow the robot guitarist etc. reminds me a lot of the mechanical
player from maybe 30 years ago that sat on top of a Selectric
typewriter.  It would push the keys under control of an ASCII data
stream, and make printed output.  But nothing more.

    carl
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