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According to Hackaday the robot rock band Compressorhead are planning to build a (robot) Lead Vocalist and produce their first original album.
Animatronic bands playing to pre-recorded background music are Chuck-E-Cheesy. Compressorhead, in contrast, slays it. We don’t know if it’s the fact that they’re actually playing real instruments “live” or if it’s just that the folks behind the scenes are really brilliant MIDI programmers, but Compressorhead sounds really good.
The kickstarter page, set up to support this effort, goes into a little more detail on the plans for the project:
We, being Frank, Markus and Stock, are fulltime artists. What we love, is to build party machines and let them rock. Now we want Compressorhead to be the first Robot Band to record an original album. Together with the Canadian music-legend John Wright (of NomeansNo & The Hanson Brothers) we are producing fantastic new songs for our Rocking Robot Band.
The official Compressorhead page has yet more background and video clips of the band in action, such as this YouTube video of a 2014 performance.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday November 09 2015, @11:33AM
I showed them my 2hz-200khz vocal range, low THD and noise.
The group's producer told me, "that's all fine, bot, but we like background vocalists with big titties".
Nothing to do here.
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(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday November 09 2015, @01:05PM
Water balloons and a blond wig. Problem solved.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday November 09 2015, @02:37PM
The specialization in the field is incredible, look at top 40 pop for the past couple decades, hire a 18 year old white girl "exotic dancer" to lipsync and meanwhile bot is doing the actual singing, it sometimes causes a little cognitive dissonance when Britney bounces almost naked on to the stage and you start hearing Diana Ross belt out some tune, but kids have been eating that formula up for decades. Its interesting looking at the lack of variety in 18 year old white girls visually, but who they're lip syncing to has varied over all musical genres.
Country/Western female singers have a similar lack of visual diversity over the past couple generations, its not just top 40 bubblegum pop.
If you go back in time, pre-TV era there were some damn ugly yet highly successful musicians. I don't think hot lip sync dancers add much culturally.
I know the standard answers to "If I could go back in time and un-invent something, I'd un-invent ..." but I'd think pretty seriously about un-inventing lip-syncing. That would be a great cultural achievement.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:10AM
"If you go back in time, pre-TV era there were some damn ugly yet highly successful musicians. I don't think hot lip sync dancers add much culturally."
In 1979, The Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star" pretty much summed up that statement. The first video presented on the brand new MTV and the prophetic beginning of the cultural slide into appearance over talent.
They must of had a very good crystal ball.....
https://vimeo.com/63436140 [vimeo.com]
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