Watch: Orchestra employs robots on percussion
mainThis is the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester playing ‘The Robots are Coming!’ by Steve Pickett at a young people’s concert.
A sign of the times? The percussion of the future?
This is the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester playing ‘The Robots are Coming!’ by Steve Pickett at a young people’s concert.
A sign of the times? The percussion of the future?
The African-American soprano Kathleen Battle, sacked in 1994…
Mark Jackobs of the Cleveland Orchestra has responded…
St John’s Cambridge has told members of its…
She is now the facial of Estee Lauder…
Session expired
Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page.
Certainly the perfect instrument to perform a work titled “The Robots are Coming”. Much else, no.
Apparently an educational project to inform youth about what a symphony orchestra is not, and what classical music is not.
The unimpressive visuals of automated percussion are probably why they added light flashes to let you know something was happening.
I don’t think will ever compete with the theatricality of a human drummer swinging away at some hide.
Mechanical percussion has been around on band organs for about 200 years now, if it hasn’t caught on yet…
Hey!!! Norman, what’s up?
i can’t put it on Facebook any more!!!
People really enjoy the posts!!!
However it’s done, I love the piece