Squarepusher x Z-Machines - Making of 'Music For Robots'

[@skameron831]

Gotta give some respect to Zima and Z-Machines for picking Tom Jenkinson (Squarepusher) to be a part of this project. They could have easily picked some mediocre, super mainstream artist to gain more attention.

[@AdamWoodhams]

Oh yeah

[@distorson]

and I thought Aphex Twin's Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments was crazy

[@atarirob]

Squarepusher - Making RDJ look mediocre since 1996! (kidding of course, they're both incredible)

[@root8272]

This is something extraordinary. We've known for a long time that digital music can be used to create sounds that simply cannot be reproduced by humans, but when the digitization is done at the level of a physical, mechanical machine and playing with organic physical instruments, the possibilities and sounds are endless and mindblowing. Things that are physically impossible are now possible to hear with real instruments, and the idea of this is just flat-out exciting, because it introduces a new aspect to the progression of music in general. I think this is a very underrated idea of what could one day be something as progressive as the introduction off jazz was to music.

[@lexxandera]

yes, it is interesting. I believe Aphex Twin did something similar on his EP Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2. But this here is on another level for sure...

[@timhofstetter5654]

You're quite the optimist. In order for this to be part of the "progression" of music, it needs to be persistent... and this will certainly not be persistent. These machines don't produce anything of note or value that is bio-impossible and is still halfway decent to listen to.

[@root8272]

@@timhofstetter5654 Perhaps I'm being too optimistic, but to say "this will certainly not be persistent" is way too definitive.

[@timhofstetter5654]

@@root8272 Remember the techno of the 1980s? I barely do. That was even BIG. This isn't big, it's tiny. It's not even as big as a Chuck E. Cheese band.

[@root8272]

@@timhofstetter5654 You're serious? Electronic music from the 80s is still a huge influence on modern music

[@MediHusky]

I like that they took the time to make them headbang. Good.

[@Dasloth92]

Dude.....this is quite possibly one of the FUCKING coolest things ever!

[@HelenWebb-b5f]

The music for this is INSANE!! Brilliant and fitting ….

[@BobbyHiltz]

Very impressive. A behind-the-scenes was required!

[@VintageMusicGearTV]

Bought the album from a charity shop because it was called music for robots so glad I did what an awesome project!

[@shawnphase]

thank you for sharing, i didnt want this video to end.

[@NickSuda]

I blame the general sort-of cultural wall between Japan and the rest of the world that this project didn't get more media attention. Anyone who has experimented with robotic instruments before will know that the level of precision possible in each of these rigs has no expense spared. This is the craziest, most precise, best sounding robotic instrument rig I've ever seen. Even just building a simple solenoid-driven snare drum is greatly stunted by the inherent mechanical limitations. This is not typically the kind of music that robots make. Aphex's record is much closer to what you'd normally hear from a technical standpoint.

[@martincattell6820]

Love the process, like the music and would definitely want to hear more music made this way, from the subtle to the intense. I feel privileged to have seen this

[@geekyourlikeslulu]

I can't imagine the possibility of these..amazing

[@accountqetic7252]

トムはShobaleader Oneでも架空のバンドでアルバム作ったもんな。 このプロジェクトもうなづける。 完全なSquarepusher×Z-Machinesのライブ観たい！

[@maybedean]

This is my theme song for life.

[@tincoandringa4630]

I've been listening to the EP on repeat all day, it's great!

[@intevolver]

Excellent splash for the EP. I hope a longer "making of" video gets released, this process is fascinating.

[@heyitsadamjae]

Mind blown. Too much awesome to handle in one go!

[@Stay_ClassyYT]

Need another album like this by these two.

[@mmmmmmmmmmm10]

Absolutely brilliant, nice track by Squarepusher too.

[@solognabologna]

Hey look! a Max/Msp patch. seriously the best program ever

[@InspireToMake]

Is it a MAX MSP at 2:04 ?

[@IsaacP]

INSANE ROBOT BAND LEARN HOW TO SHRED ON THEIR INSTRUMENTS

[@prestokrevlar]

Nice clickbaity alternative title.

[@TreborYl]

lol i like this title, is just what I thought too, they sound like when someone is learning an instrument, while you adjust itsounds so XD

[@timhofstetter5654]

The robots haven't learned anything. The people operating them have.

[@claytonbill]

Beautiful. Good work.

[@FishTankFrank1]

o my that was excellent ......

[@official.EasyRock]

This is amazing! Where can I get this tabs?

[@BrandonLHoodPresidentHoodie]

Amazing....

[@mgcuniverse9037]

if my bandmates leave me, this is gonna be their replacement

[@AcousticLibrary]

captivating - Squarepusher is entering no mans land

[@henrysmovieclub]

I'd like to see the machines used to recreate some legendary band performances. For example, I'd like to see if the robot guitarist can re-create some of Prince's or Hendrix's shreds with the same emotion they put into their performance, so we get a true human vs machine comparison.

[@777wanabe]

until they engineer the robots to bend strings, no point playing Hendrix or Prince.

[@henrysmovieclub]

Yeah, I thought of that after I posted. If they can do that, then it would be an interesting comparison.

[@BeckWreck]

777wanabe I have an idea. Take a modular bridge system like a Strandberg, and give each bridge its own floating system. Assign midi values to bends. You heard it hear first.

[@maxproph]

But human vs. machine isn't the point I don't think. Even if it were, eventually the closest comparison would just be sound recording and playback via machine vs. hearing a live performance-- you know? eventually, that differences too minute to even perceive would be present that set the machine-oriented sound apart from the human one. And that's just not the idea here. I think this project was about celebrating the idea that while we've already got the ability to blow through 8000 notes a second in the purely electronic domain, that it deserves electromechanical treatment for the sake of being electromechanical. ?

[@JeroenSevink]

A-bloody-mazing!!!

[@orr971]

Ohh god that's amazing.

[@knsgakhr]

Excellent music for excellent people

you´re the best!!!

[@CrummyNails]

Amazing

[@TheMorganWhile]

man, this is awesome!

[@animeow492]

Awesome

[@drewkg14]

This video gives seizures

[@ErranteQl]

IT'S INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!

[@PacoZane]

I only complain about the non-functional anthropomorphism

[@redwarf8118]

a bit late... but I like the fact that it does not work

[@MariaVirginiaGarciaMWI]

Brillante, me hizo vibrar! :D

[@山本康平-l9t]

great

[@MacksWolfMusic]

Insane.

[@SickTruck]

They need these robots to play grindcore and headbang to it.

[@JestersGeneration]

Why god why!?!?! lol this is amazingly great

[@Coreyjay4]

I wish I knew more about robots so that I could make some Neil Peart puns

[@ViktorT6550]

Negatively amazing with only 2.3K likes.

[@digitalblasphemy1100]

sounds japanese

[@chameleongogo5985]

exactly

[@cyte2305]

すげえ

[@Hopskotchrecords]

Wow!

[@sam-i-am-dada]

nerdgasm

[@serpentstudios7768]

keep up the good work!

[@pedroleal7118]

Good pick choice! what happens when you need to change a string?

[@apoliniakowalska3945]

обалденно ))

[@vauxittt]

потрясающе)

[@shin-ishikiri-no]

Unreal.

[@JgShows]

Could you send me the tabs please?

[@Exenocast]

4:20 Time to smoke weed

[@JuanDavidHenao11]

Future is here!

[@zulugoduluz]

круто!!!

[@Jamescarter-lb6zs]

I wanna see if it can play speed kills (No bounderies) at x2 tempo.

[@moodistry]

이야...지린다..

[@wurstkonig3621]

i for one welcome our robot overlords

[@aliceislostofficial]

Holy mother of god!

[@harlequin1419]

after the piano stops it all just sounds like a bunch of random 8 and 16 bit console sounds with a 5 year old on the drums. does this mean im too old to get it?

[@timsullivan2141]

yes

[@alanthesheep6428]

Not necessarily. Just because it's clever doesn't make it good.

[@timsullivan2141]

The "making of" video is nothing like the final product. Maybe we're referring to two different things.

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

🎶🤖🎶

[@graveyardgamers4178]

It's all fun and games when they start walking and throwing stuff

[@FilziSH]

6:55 Buckethead is that you? oO

[@abhisheksoman9982]

Hello I am doing a research of Advanced Architecture and Robots in Music. I would like to know the name of the robots used and what was the aim kept in mid while designing them.

[@canon5204]

Nobody: Speedcore musicians: 3:34

[@legitskateclips]

2:12 max msp?

[@AFilmIonosphere]

YES....its a robotic YES.

[@user-sayjer]

Концерт роботов-гитаристов Робот Вертер(Гостья из будущего)

[@derekvandeusen4643]

And yet Niel Peart still stands alone...

[@Vinsent-zx6bm]

Класс

[@pausantandreu]

sounds quite like Dragonfoce :)

[@hyukso710]

이게 진정한 전자음악임

[@pedroleal7118]

Looks like some 'MAX' was involved...

[@Scott_396]

Any weather beaten acoustic slide. Guess not

[@dady6216]

Damon

[@kummer45]

Algorithmic music, YESSSSS.

[@VictorZamanian]

That's pretty cool and all but it really sounded like crap at the end there. A cacophony, if you will. Too fast, it was. Maybe that was the intention, I don't know. Impressive, nonetheless.

[@identifiantidentifie397]

The idea is great, but in my personal opinion the music itself is not that intersting or spécia, but who cares , only a personal opinion in an ocean of voices...

[@vangeliskostoxenakis]

7.04 S&H

[@110AstroRobot]

ボクハデンタク、オンガクカナデル

[@NurHasanahHasanah-dq3ec]

banyak robot ku

[@donrafaeli]

cough cough... Godfried-Willem Raes

[@rusticman]

sounds like dragonforce

[@bonkoh2008]

Refine it, then mix some of this with Animusic graphics and this could become interesting indeed...

[@illustriouschin]

Sounds like John Coltrane.

[@JohnPaulBuce]

Giant Steps

[@JohnPaulBuce]

what

[@Scott_396]

Did u try a slide... Jk

[@TheVenusProjectInfo]

sounds like shaun lane

[@MarceloChorus]

chuucnchales

[@dady6216]

uhhhh

[@aafgga9572]

うーん…

[@djsaeg]

pling tong ching twing! #¢#¢∞#¢""·"·

[@PanchoRosas]

Yngwie Malmsteen is faster.

[@orr971]

Daft Punk will do wonders with ths machine. I'm serious.

[@yoquentin54]

Engineering at its finest, music at its shittiest. Japan lol. Awesome work though.

[@samueljimenez4784]

Dragón force doesn't like this song

[@tatoxl]

That's really awesome... but kinda meaningless if they end up playing music that sounds like an 8bit track from an 80's C64... Play some Slayer for Devil's sake!

[@ykmtjtyjm]

First bitch

[@timhofstetter5654]

What a fabulous waste of money!

[@alistairmaleficent8776]

You're dumb.

[@JohnPaulBuce]

as if it was your hard earned money