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Media examples
Video and audio examples referenced in the book, organized by chapter. Each entry corresponds to a numbered media example in the text.
Chapter 1 — The big picture
Media Example 1.1
Boston Dynamics robot
Watch on YouTube →
Chapter 3 — A brief history of musical machines
Media Example 3.1
Marble Machine
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 3.2
Jaquet Droz — The Musician
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 3.3
Aeolian Harp
Watch on YouTube →
Chapter 4 — The process of making a musical machine
Media Example 4.1.1
Tempo Mecho — Scott Barton
Watch on YouTube →
Chapter 5 — Percussion
Media Example 5.1.1
Jazari
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 5.1.2
ABB robot performance
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 5.1.3
MIT's Cog
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 5.1.4
Compressorhead — Stickboy
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 5.1.5
Liquid Percussion — Trimpin
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 5.1.6
rddm — Cavatorta
Watch on Vimeo →
Media Example 5.1.7
Drum rudiments
Watch on YouTube →
Chapter 6 — Strings
Media Example 6.1.1
Harmonic series
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 6.1.2
MechBass playing with prerecorded track
Watch on YouTube →
Listen on Spotify
Media Example 6.1.3
Rise of a City
Listen on Spotify →
Media Example 6.1.4
Animusic — Resonant Chamber
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 6.1.5
The Continuator
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 6.2.1
Oscillating motion from treadle and cam
Watch on YouTube (1) →
Watch on YouTube (2) →
Media Example 6.2.2
Toyota violin-playing robot
Watch on YouTube →
External website — see link
Media Example 6.2.3
Shibuya violin-playing robot
View project page →
Media Example 6.2.4
Automated composition for violin bow, zither, toy piano, and tape recorders — van Veldhoven
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 6.2.5
Ghost Play
Watch on YouTube (1) →
Watch on YouTube (2) →
Media Example 6.2.6
Entrada — Stephen Scott
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 6.2.7
Dan Bau
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 6.2.8
Milwaukee Servoelectric Guitar
Watch on YouTube →
Chapter 7 — Aerophones
Media Example 7.1.1
Membrane Reeds
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 7.1.2
Blue Man Group
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 7.1.3
Waseda Flutist Robot
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 7.1.4
Waseda Saxophone Robot
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 7.2.1
Post-digital Sax
Watch on Vimeo →
Chapter 9 — Composing with and for machines
Media Example 9.1
Study No. 5 — Nancarrow
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 9.2
Poème Symphonique — Ligeti
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 9.3
Ballet Mécanique — Antheil
Watch on YouTube →
Listen on Spotify
Media Example 9.4
Continuum — Ligeti
Listen on Spotify →
Media Example 9.5
Sad Robot Goes Funny — Squarepusher
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 9.6
Guitarbotana — Mari Kimura
Watch on YouTube →
Media Example 9.7
Experiment in Augmentation 1 — Barton
Watch on YouTube →