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Lev and Thumpbot play crazy

Nice use of kinetic instruments to produce something that could theoretically be considered melodic.
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Posted by: cheese1113 on September 20, 2007 at 12:33 PM

I think it's Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy"

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Posted by: dragonphyre on September 20, 2007 at 1:03 PM

Which wasn't a good song to begin with...

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Posted by: AP on September 20, 2007 at 2:22 PM

I love the robotic theramin. Can anyone tell what's playing the harmony?

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Posted by: moonmilk on September 20, 2007 at 2:59 PM

The harmony's being played by an old MT-32 synthesizer.

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Posted by: AP on September 20, 2007 at 4:20 PM

Cool work, my friend. Is the synth also putting out MIDI signals running the 'bots?

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Posted by: samurai1200 on September 20, 2007 at 5:35 PM

Dragonphyre keep your hater-mouth shut. Gnarls is truth.
This is too ill. I know youve all seen that computer-animation with a full on band of different self-playing instruments... the one that uses steel balls for drums... A real life version would be nuts!

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Posted by: moonmilk on September 20, 2007 at 7:45 PM

Thanks, AP. It's a laptop running Reaper and Max/MSP that's controlling the synthesizer, theremin bot, and percussion bot through midi.

Samurai, I know just the video you mean, and I've wondered if it could be done in real life.

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