{"id":33034,"date":"2014-02-16T22:50:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T22:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/this-robot-band-has-a-guitarist-with-78-fingers\/"},"modified":"2014-02-16T22:50:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T22:50:17","slug":"this-robot-band-has-a-guitarist-with-78-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/this-robot-band-has-a-guitarist-with-78-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"This robot band has a guitarist with 78 fingers | The Verge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/2\/16\/5416482\/z-machines-robot-band'>This robot band has a guitarist with 78 fingers | The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>All-robot band Compressorhead has some competition. British record label Warp Records will soon be releasing an album performed entirely by a three-piece band of Japanese robots called Z-Machines \u2014 the guitarist has 78 fingers, while the drummer rocks out with 22 arms. The band&rsquo;s creators teamed up with composer Squarepusher initially to simply explore creating music with the bots, but eventually they crafted an entire five track album. &ldquo;In this project familiar instruments are used in ways which till now have been impossible,&rdquo; Squarepusher says.<\/p>\n<p>While the additional appendages mean that the band members can play in ways no human can, composing for them involved its own unique set of challenges. &ldquo;Each of the robotic devices involved in the performance of this music has its own specification which permits certain possibilities and excludes others,&rdquo; Squarepusher explains. &ldquo;The robot guitar player, for example, can play much faster than a human ever could, but there is no amplitude control.&rdquo; The aptly titled album Music For Robots is due to launch on April 8th, and if you pre-order now you&rsquo;ll be able to grab the first single &ldquo;Sad Robot Goes Funny&rdquo; early. Now we&rsquo;ll just have to wait for the inevitable Daft Punk collaboration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This robot band has a guitarist with 78 fingers | The Verge All-robot band Compressorhead has some competition. British record label Warp Records will soon be releasing an album performed entirely by a three-piece band of Japanese robots called Z-Machines \u2014 the guitarist has 78 fingers, while the drummer rocks out with 22 arms. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-33034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8AO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}