Marilyn Manson's Beautiful People revisited by animated robotic band

Next time you go for a musical concert don’t get surprised if you find an array of animated musical instruments playing themselves to a packed house with lauded performances. The process towards that has already been initiated by EOL Robot band with their rendition of the Beautiful people by Marilyn Manson. Circuits, computer peripherals and discarded tools were painstakingly assembled to come up with a fairly decent ensemble of robotic instruments to put up the live musical show now to view on the YouTube. The originator of the idea popularly known bd594, has used latest digital technology and combined it with usefulness of discarded machinery to animate existing musical instruments and create a melody unattended on its own.

EOL Robot Band

The wonder of music never fails to light up our mood and helps makes sense of the most futile moments into something memorable especially when its a live show delivered by a fastidious assemblage of animated robotic musicians brought to live with antiquarian peripherals which otherwise had lost its utility and value for any further usage. The collection that has been put together by a gizmo freak electronic designer popularly known as bd594, who has combined retro computer parts fitted to music instruments to structure a up and coming robot band called as the EOL Robot band. The band comprises of animated musicians including the robotic cello, electric guitar, drummer, and the most significant of them all, a flat-bed scanner. Its a long way developed from the first Bit 52 music created of James Cochrane from Toronto, who was the first of all to create a band of mechanical and electrical instruments to create music, without any human involvement. Explaining how the experiment came alive, the designer bd594, justifies that:

One night I was working on the Cello and the stepper motor started to jitter almost ripping the Cello sting and Bow apart. As I was jumping over to the power switch I noticed that the jittery sound reminded me of a song. That song turned out to be The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson. I programmed a small part for the Cello and it sounded great… 2 months later my video was complete.

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Via: Technabob