MR-808 mechanic drum robot live at CYNETART 2012
January 11, 2013
Science Fiction Children & Moritz Simon Geist live at CYNETART Dresden Hellerau 2012
The MR-808 is the first drum robot that reproduces the drum sounds of the 80s - in the real world! The robot installation MR-808 is a replica of the famous 1980s electronic drum machine TR-808 – with robots playing the drum sounds by Moritz Simon Geist.
Instruments used:
MR-808 - mechanic sound robot (all drums, miced)
A mechanic relay controlled via arduino (bass sound)
Gameboy - Arduinoboy hardware (8 bit chiptune sound)
Everything was programmed in Ableton, only equing and compression has been applied.
Glitch Robot
Published on Mar 23, 2015
"Glitch Robot" is a robotic music instrument dedicated to glitch sounds. Sounds from the in-between of error and prediction, little sounds that are amplified, small sounds made big. The installation uses old hard disks, metallic tongues, relays and other mechanic devices to create sound textures that are used in electronic music - with robots!
Dates of release: Sept. 2014.
Crew: Moritz Simon Geist (Concept + Realization), Sebastian Piatza, Claudia Lill.
Moritz Simon Geist - Robotic Electronic Music
Published on Mar 24, 2018
The future of electronic music - with robots
Showcase from Moritz Simon Geist, key figure in the field of R.E.M., Robotic Electronic Music.
Moritz is a musicologist, robotics engineer, and self-proclaimed mad scientist of DIY robotic noisery!
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