So what if robots played "real" music with "real" instruments (squarepusher)

[Lon]

still sounds pretty robotic to me.

The point of mr. pusher was to show that the human hand does not have a significant impact in the ability of people to enjoy music (as if the EDM trend has not proven this already) and his end results are pretty robotic too.

i expect a long and furious debate about what is needed to have human soul in music. Apparently it's not robots.

 

[smy1]

and his end results are pretty robotic too.

Tbh, to me it doesn't sound more robotic than 99% of all current albums that are quantized to a grid ...

 

[Lon]

Tbh, to me it doesn't sound more robotic than 99% of all current albums that are quantized to a grid ...

It sounds more human than most quantized to hell and back metal records but especially in this jazzfusion context where improvisation and live recording is still quite common it sounds very robotic to my ears.

(tbh i have no idea what genere exactly squarepusher is trying to resemble)

 

[Mutant]

Human like playing can be easily programmed and i am not talking about simple randomization based humanization.

 

[Plendakor]

I love this. The emotion/feeling is ultimatly behind the mastermind who made the music/programmed the robots etc. I can enjoy this as much as I can enjoy electronic music, except that this use real instruments instead of electronic instruments so the physical environement is still implied (air pressure and whatnot). I like the tune.

This said, would still enjoy it 1000% more played by humans with inacuracies and differant velocities.