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An entirely robotic orchestra played George Antheil’s score to the Dadaist film Ballet mécanique alongside the film itself for the first time on Saturday June 7, 2008.
Antheil — “the bad boy of music, an enfant terrible” of his time, according to fanboy Paul Lehrman (the MIDI expert responsible for programming aforementioned robots) — originally wrote the piece in the twenties for synchronized player pianos (the robots of their time) except the whole synchronization thing wasn't quite possible with the then-available technology.
The performance involved eight pianos, xylophones, a gong, bass drums, electric bells, a siren, and airplane propellers hanging from the ceiling, all played by robots. -- New York Mag
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