History of Synthesizers: 1950 to 1970
June 11, 2013 – 7:42 am | No Comment

Previously we discussed how the synthesizer started to come to be from its earliest days as the 200 ton teleharmonium up until the creation of the trautonium (and mixtur-trautonium) in the 1930s and 40s, but …

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Creepy Robotic hand plays keyboard
December 7, 2009 – 9:15 am | 2 Comments
Creepy Robotic hand plays keyboard

Kitty Clark is an artist and technology geek extraordinare.  One day, she must have thought to herself: “What do you get when you combine a couple of fans, a remote-controlled car and a weird robotic …

Cybraphon – the emotional musical instrument
November 22, 2009 – 6:11 pm | 3 Comments
Cybraphon – the emotional musical instrument

Cybraphon is an “autonomous emotional robot band”. It’s a self-playing musical robot, similar to a player piano, but more more complicated, and it’s actually a full band. Oh, and it obsessively checks the …

Guitar playing robot made from inkjet printers
November 17, 2009 – 1:18 pm | One Comment
Guitar playing robot made from inkjet printers

The Plink Jet is a robot made by entirely out of parts from inkjet printers. Made by Andrew Doro and Lesley Flanigan, this DIY project that was made for one purpose: to play the guitar.
The …

LEV, the Theremin-playing robot
November 12, 2009 – 8:33 am | No Comment
LEV, the Theremin-playing robot

At SynthGear, we have a bit of a thing for music-playing robots, and this latest robot that we’ve discovered is pure awesomeness: it’s purpose-made to play the theremin.
Ranjit Bhatnagar, one of our favorite DIY musical-instrument …

Synth playing robot
October 31, 2009 – 10:03 pm | 4 Comments
Synth playing robot

It was made over 25 years ago. WABOT-2 was a robot that was developed by Waseda University in 1984 as an intelligent humanoid keyboard player.

When it was made, it was considered the ‘most …

Drumming robot can improvise along with you
September 5, 2009 – 8:12 am | No Comment
Drumming robot can improvise along with you

Gil Weinberg and Scott Driscoll of Georgia Tech have created an interactive robot that can improvise rhythms – it listens to what you are playing and jams along.
Haile is a robotic percussionist that can listen …