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ROBOCLARINET

A robot clarinet player designed by a team from UNSW and NICTA has won first prize at an international orchestra competition. The robot, which performed The Flight of the Bumblebee and Bolero in the final, beat a Dutch developed guitar-picking robot and a Finnish piano-playing machine. Staged in Athens, the goal of the Artemis Music Orchestra competition is to raise awareness about the growing capacity and applications of embedded computer systems. For more info, please visit the School of Physics website: www.phys.unsw.edu.au

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25 Responses to “ROBOCLARINET”

1. 
   Melsi1979

   “the robot explodes”… Oh God I laughed so much and still laughing, so funny! The poor sound is obvious in the upper register. On the other hand I feel happy.. someone has worked and focused on what we love so much!! The result is very impressing, we all know how difficult it is to play the instrument correctly (still laughing). As for loosing our job, don’t think so! normal people want to connect with the player as well.
   June 29th, 2011 at 3:37 pm
2. 
   picadurapraquememole

   Porque ele não enfia no cú esse clarinete de merrrrrda!!
   June 29th, 2011 at 3:46 pm
3. 
   phillipmccrevis

   Robot, sir, work on your embouchure.
   June 29th, 2011 at 4:10 pm
4. 
   Phaedriatica

   @xnightreaperx: I’ll admit the tonality isn’t good, but “not legato at all”? I hear no separation between the notes. Legato indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, in transitioning from note to note, there should be no articulation. If you mean “vibrato”, well, there’s not a lot of room for that in a piece that is in 16th notes at 144 BPM and the 8th notes are marked staccato.
   June 29th, 2011 at 4:47 pm
5. 
   Phaedriatica

   @xnightreaperx: I’ll admit the tonality isn’t good, but “not legato at all”? I hear no separation between the notes. Legato indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, in transitioning from note to note, there should be no articulation. If you mean “vibrato”, well, there’s not a lot of room for that in a piece that is in 16th notes at 144 BPM and the 8th notes are marked staccato.
   June 29th, 2011 at 5:44 pm
6. 
   BrynSmith1

   omg its a robot, thats pretty damn impressive, calm down
   June 29th, 2011 at 6:31 pm
7. 
   NsrSince01

   Sounds terrible!
   June 29th, 2011 at 7:23 pm
8. 
   puddingpimp

   @chocotastic , It didn’t beat a human player, it was a robot orchestra competition as it clearly says in the description under the video: “The robot, which performed The Flight of the Bumblebee and Bolero in the final, beat a Dutch developed guitar-picking robot and a Finnish piano-playing machine.
   Staged in Athens, the goal of the Artemis Music Orchestra competition is to raise awareness about the growing capacity and applications of embedded computer systems.”
   June 29th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
9. 
   Hydrogenes

   it sounded so horrible. any player will sound better if they take the effort to master this song
   June 29th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
10. 
    quietthomas

    Pretty sure they stole this from the music episode of “LOOK around you”
    June 29th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
11. 
    tydydpony93

    i like the dynamics that robot has… On and Off
    June 29th, 2011 at 9:01 pm
12. 
    chocotastic

    What orchestra competition did this clarinet compete in? Because I want to know what clarinet players were incompetent enough to not be more musical than a freaking robot.
    June 29th, 2011 at 9:49 pm
13. 
    xXBloodbatXx

    All I heard was clicks.
    June 29th, 2011 at 10:10 pm
14. 
    KiyoKenshin

    I want to make a robot orchestra with all instruments like this, just to hear how it would sound…
    June 29th, 2011 at 10:18 pm
15. 
    animeluver4evah

    YOU IDIOTS!!!
    ARE YOU CRAZY?!
    THAT TAKES AWAY THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF MUSIC!!!
    music is for everyone to enjoy! not some stupid robo technological thing..
    June 29th, 2011 at 11:15 pm
16. 
    TenSax34

    awful.
    June 29th, 2011 at 11:24 pm
17. 
    SteveTheCart

    Hey! White boy play da blues!
    June 29th, 2011 at 11:40 pm
18. 
    nicegirl12315

    this sounds horrible. they should just destroy that robot whatever machine and let people play it, like is suppose to be
    June 29th, 2011 at 11:48 pm
19. 
    sangreiti

    it has no feel, no emotion to it. that defeats the purpose of music
    June 30th, 2011 at 12:27 am
20. 
    Clarinerd617

    Bad….this robot is obviously still a beginner, as it still doesn’t know the correct way to play altissimo. You have to lip it up a bit, and the robot is unable to do that. How on earth did it make it to first place? The legato was also horrible…they should have gone for something a bit easier than Flight of the Bumblebee when taking this on…..Hot Cross Buns comes to mind in the case of this clarin00b.
    This is definitely not ready for Shosty’s Festive Overture, though…
    FAIL
    June 30th, 2011 at 1:22 am
21. 
    XclusiveChiq

    this sounded nice
    June 30th, 2011 at 2:11 am
22. 
    FrankOnAPlank

    This is so bad, that it’s not even funny.
    June 30th, 2011 at 2:24 am
23. 
    weepingangels22

    As impressive as the speed of the note playing is, the tone quality is horrible
    June 30th, 2011 at 2:51 am
24. 
    syctenor

    poor clarintet
    June 30th, 2011 at 3:06 am
25. 
    PrettyFli4aWhiteguy

    hmmm, it sounds robotic?
    June 30th, 2011 at 4:00 am