Absolut Quartet: robots making music with ping pong balls and brandy glasses
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Feb 21st 2008 7:33AM
posted Feb 21st 2008 7:33AM
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Haha lorf
Dang... beaten to the punch.
I for one welcome our electronic overlorfs!
Real life www.Animusic.com!
m dog would go crazy in that room
I don't know why I found your comment so funny, probibly the vision of letting a golden loose in there. It would be like doggie heaven.
Nice "Contact" references
ah yes, making useless robots
more important that making useful ones
the useful ones suck!
have you seen those 100 grand robotic arms that pick stuff up and put it down again?!!
Ricky E Glasius Ping Pong song, but then better
Haha, this reminds me of ATI's Animusic demo back in the 9700 days. I used to love that demo.
ATI didn't make it, they just included it as a demo. It's an actual company, and you can buy a DVD with a whole bunch of different songs on it: http://www.animusic.com/
I bought this a few years ago, I love it!
Yeah, I know, but no one would know what I was talking about if I didn't reference it to ATI. ;)
exactly! IT'S ANIMUSIC!! same exact machine!
Uhh, I actually LOVED that demo. I had no idea it was a DVD at all. I kept trying to find the software for a long time.
It was only much later that I learned it was produced by Animusic. I actually have both of their DVDs.
No way these are ping pong balls--they would not be dense enough to play a marimba with this tone. Most likely rubber, I'm guessing. What an extraordinary machine!
i found no rythim to this at all good but req work
I've seen better ping pong ball tricks! ;)
They are indeed rubber balls. They just happen to be ping-pong-ball size.
Check out the links I posted below for more technical info.
Am I the only one who can't see what's going on properly then?
too dark to see anything
lol i love it!
so, they spend a kazillion hours building this thing, but only have a camera phone around for shooting the video that introduces them to the world? really? c'mon!
This isn't their video. It's a video made by some guy who visited the exhibition.
For info about the creation, see this interview:
http://blogs.earthsky.org/lindsaypatterson/bizarre/0207125/creating-music-with-creative-machines-an-interview-with-jeff-lieberman/
For the official website, see:
http://absolut.com/absolutmachines
You want robot music? Check out Captured by Robots, a one man and many robot band that actually tours. Part music, part performance art, here is a YouTube video of them in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zvU165DEYc
I agree. Great Show!
Chuck-e-cheese did it first.. and better...
cute, but done before over a decade ago by Trimpin.
Can you say Glass Harmonica??
I recommend anyone interested in this project go onto the site ABSOLUTMACHINES.COM to interact machine yourselves.
It's actually part of a two part project called ABSOLUT MACHINES that also includes the ABSOLUT CHOIR in Stockholm, both of which can be controlled by users on absolutmachines.com and is streamed live. They'll also email you the video of your session when you're done.
p.s. ABSOLUT QUARTET is being unveiled on Wednesday Feb 27, so hopefully there should be a better video available then.
http://www.absolutmachines.com