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25. February 2013 1

Even more internet love for 808 robots

We recently got some more reviews for our Band Science Fiction Children and the MR-808 Robot (german / eng). As before I moneyquoted some of the content we likes the most. Internets, you are sometime so humorous -thx!

JL260312022“Take a look at the photograph above. Either that is an amazingly small lamp and a standard drum machine, or it is a normal lamp and a really, really amazing drum machine. I am pleased to confirm that it is the latter.” amazingstuff.co.uk

“Doch für einen Laien ist ein solches Projekt überhaupt nicht naheliegend und wohl auch in Fachkreisen nicht. Und so sind “Science Fiction Children” die erste Band der Welt, die mit einem solchen Musikroboter auf der Bühne agieren können. Und wenn schon die Idee zum Bau eines solchen Gerätes keinesfalls das Erste ist, was mir beim Frühstück in den Kopf kommen würde, so ist es für mich als Laien schon gar nicht nachvollziehbar, was da elektrisch und elektronisch durch die Leitungen geht.”
banq.de Thanks Andreas!

“Conceptually not so diverse from the musical automata engineered in the 18th and 19th centuries, the MR-808 could be viewed as an attempt to create a similar impression as the sensation once produced by the animated instruments of old, using contemporary musical idioms and imagery. The tiredness towards purely digital applications prompting the search for new physical output peripherals is here expressed by retracing the evolution of digital computers backwards towards the origins of automation in mechanical musical machines.”
Neural.it Thanks Matteo!

“Dennoch sollte man SFC nicht auf ihre außergewöhnlichen Instrumentierung reduzieren. Tracks wie “Rise of the Toys” oder “You don´t let me dance” zeigen, dass die Jungs auch Songwriting, Produktion und Performance beherrschen wie nur wenige in der Stadt […] endlich wieder eine Dresdner Band, die das Erbe Pitchtuners in Würde antreten”
Article at Mittelstern.de Thanks Sebastian

37-329747d3cdf17aabInterwiew by Carsten Meyer for C’T hardware hacks, print only. Thanks Carsten!

“Hacks an musikalischer Hardware erleben eine Renaissance. Der deutsche Künstler Moritz Simon Geist will den Sound vom elektronischen Dogma befreien und hat dafür einen überdimensionalen Drumroboter gebaut.”
Werquer

“Built with a bastardly concoction of mechanical actuators, Arduino programming language and real percussion instruments, the MR-808 result is beautifully terrifying- a fully motorized Keith Moon controlled by the binary logic of its human oppressors that fits comfortably within the confines of your own Dresden laboratory.”
Verifyhuman

This is an update to a previous article.

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