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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[That's the most horrendous thing I've ever heard!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tobias]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 13th 2007 10:17AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[Okay, so there's no vibrato or proper legato phrasing.  And Giant Steps was probably the poorest choice of composition, since it's a piece that's naturally going to sound horrible in static half-step notes.  But it's a note-for-note rendition otherwise, and it's pretty impressive.  Woodwinds are difficult enough for humans; give the robots some time to get the hang of it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gnu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 13th 2007 10:28AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[How about Flight of the Bumblebee? It doesn't get any more static than that.  Imagine how fast Johnny 5 here could play it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 13th 2007 10:53AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[ok, we'll give the robot time to adjust. maybe it just needs more spit...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[angelsvairwaves1]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 13th 2007 5:12PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[yeah, how does one artifically simulate an embouchure?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scabies]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 13th 2007 11:19AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[*waits for comment about saxophone-playing robot overlords*]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aaron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 13th 2007 10:53AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[I for one welcome our jazzy, scatting, bee-bopping robot overlords.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 13th 2007 11:21AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[Kind of like the "Pops".]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tom_squick]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 13th 2007 12:10PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hear a human for comparison - <a href="http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/jorbis/JOrbisPlayer.php?path=Giant+Steps.ogg&wiki=en" rel="nofollow">http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/jorbis/JOrbisPlayer.php?path=Giant+Steps.ogg&wiki=en</a><br><br>A fascinating experiment, no doubt... but not much a musician.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mr. B]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 13th 2007 12:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[Jazz isn't music, it's noise, so this must be jazz.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Big Fudge]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 13th 2007 12:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[Says the pop loving Brittney Spears fanatic...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Soulquarian]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 13th 2007 1:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[Says the pop loving Brittney Spears fanatic...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Soulquarian]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 13th 2007 1:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[sax-uh-muh-phooooooooone]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[hesh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 13th 2007 1:35PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[It's all part of my evil plan! Soon, music lovers across the globe will do anything to get it to stop! <br>HA HA HAAAA HAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robo-Dave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 13th 2007 2:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[Damn, now I'll never get any gigs. :(]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bpowers]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 13th 2007 4:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[Bad choice of song there -- and performer. John Coltrane, especially in the era he wrote this piece, was known for his so-called `sheets of sound' -- very fast arpeggios combined with harmonics (Thelonious Monk taught him this, apparently) produced by weird key combinations, so a monophonic saxophone could sound almost as if it was playing a chord. Obviously it's hard for a robot -- let alone even a MIDI transcript (I assume that's what it's playing off) to reproduce something like that.<br><br>It'd make much more sense with the bass and piano giving an idea of the chord progression -- Trane was known for playing plenty of `chord substitutes' -- fitting as many as 3 or 4 chords into a space where there's normally one -- so it's not easy to follow as a saxophone solo.<br><br>Technically impressive though. Pressing the keys is nothing -- but the embouchure? How on earth...?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[xerxesdaphat]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 14th 2007 7:11AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Saxy jazz-playing robot]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/saxy-jazz-playing-robot/</guid><description><![CDATA[as]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mohsen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 20th 2007 5:19PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
