Squarepusher × Z-MACHINES
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ย. 2013
- 78-finger Guitar, 22 Drums, Beyond-Human.
Squarepusher and robot band from Japan in Music of the Future collaboration.
Referred to as "an attempt to break new ground for emotional machine music" by its composer Squarepuhser, "Sad Robot Goes Funny" features the superhuman prowess of Z-MACHINES, showcasing in particular the stupendous chops of the guitarist playing multiple melody lines with 78 fingers and 12 picks at lightning speed in the latter half of the song.
This makes it a truly groundbreaking piece of music from Squarepusher to open the way for new music of the future.
MACH -Robot guitarist challenging the speed of over BPM1000
ASHURA -Robot drummer that can play the most complex rhythm on 22 drums
COSMO -Robot keyboard player resembling a future life form
movie director : Daito Manabe of Rhizomatiks
'Music For Robots' will be released 7th April 2014 via Warp Records, for more information head to bit.ly/1j4m4lm
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スクエアプッシャーとロボットバンドのコラボで生まれた未来の音楽
このSquarepusherが書き下ろした楽曲「SAD ROBOT GOES FUNNY」は、Squarepusher が「"今回の試みはエモーショナルなマシーンミュージック"という新しい領域を開拓するものである」とコメントを寄せるように、Z-MACHINESの超人的な演奏能力を引き出した楽曲に仕上がっており、特に楽曲後半では78本の指と12個のピックが超高速で複数のメロディラインを奏でる超絶テクが存分に生かされています。それと同時に無機的なマシーンのイメージを覆す心を揺さぶられるようなストーリー性のある楽曲に仕上がっており、まさに鬼才Squarepusherが未来に向かって新しい音楽ジャンルを切り開いた画期的な楽曲に仕上がりました。
映像監督：真鍋 大度 (ライゾマティクス)
最新作『Music For Robots』は、2014年4月5日にBeat Records / Warp Recordsよりリリース。
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The robots are cool, but the musical composition of this is incredible. So much complex jazz knowledge being put into play by Tom. He's always been good, but you can tell he is at a really advanced level of musical awareness by now. The interplay between all of the harmonic changes and the intricate melodies and leads is impressive. And he still provides a great arrangement where you get a chorus and a simple, memorable melody on top to ground it all out.
hell yeah dude, EXACTLY!!!!! tom jenkinson is a chill dude and badass musician, haven't seen this before but damn its fucking awesome, I wish there were more of this stuff, the other cool vid I liked was jaqapparatus by chris cunningham
And what about the drums !?
I could hear Alan Holdsworth influence towards the end!
This shit is like a real human achievement, truly amazing. I love the Shoebalader One stuff with Tom Jenkinson and his live band. Squarepusher & Aphex Twin covers on organic drums are a great TH-cam rabbithole to go down too :D
@@CaptionerMikehecky yes, brobraham lincoln! afflecks twin and shoobaleedr won are the bestest musicians EVER
Nothing's better than having a robot playing the keyboard by shooting lasers from its eye.
i want that keyboard, and that eye.
These robot musicians are pretty good, I wonder if they will go platinum.
TheInterweb'sMaster ehh too expensive I think steel is fine
I, for one, welcome our progressive-rocking robot overlords.
[crestfallen] Go, Squarepusher, go.
more shots of the drummer STAT
THIS.
Funny how everybody talks about the lack of "feeling". If there wouldnt be robots in this video i bet you all would cheer and say how great it is ;)
I had no idea it was robots. I found the whole ep of it and had been enjoying it for days. Only now did I just discover what the deal is
the best part about this is that Jenkinson's 'voice' is completely recognizable despite the robot players. obviously arranging this project was no foreign task so of course it's brilliant.
This is most probably my most favourite pieces of music and probably will stay this way till squarepusher makes something even better.
liam aspinall Oh its coming! I saw him live on 4/11/15...I cant wait to see the direction he takes.
Everybody here is talking about robots, but nobody is willing to admit the genius of the composition!
I think part of the thing isn't that "Can robots play emotional sounding music?" Because let's be honest, it can be programmed to do whatever you want. Including play emotional sounding music. The real question is, can a robot CREATE emotional sounding music on it's own, without human input? For me, that's the big thing. Getting a machine that can create it's own music.
And that goes for anything creative. The hard part isn't making a machine that can play a song, or paint a picture, or whatever else. It's making a machine that's capable of creating the song, or picture on it's own, from it's own "imagination", or whatever passes for an imagination with a machine.
+TXF The question is, as a human being can we understand imagination of an machine?
Humans need imagination to exist, but does machine need one?
+TXF That's the big question and the answer is YES. Artificial inteligence allows to create and to take decisions on its own, learning by doing, like a baby knowing the environment. Someday soon we'll have music created by this type of intelligence... The next question will be what are the limits of this new art of intelligence... they won't probably want just to be our slaves. It can be limited to avoid some questions, but they will look their own path with time.
+GK051339 Another question can be, What can be defined as "emotional music"? seeing as it's only defined by our subjective emotions and depending on which emotion is being transmited.
+Dixit Dominus Sorry I didn't see your answer. That's a very good question. What is an emotion? what is a mood? Perhaps this is just some type of drug that our brain produces changing the behavior of the huge network, and this hat just brought an advantage in the evolution... Emotions would be just a catalysator of the whole thing.
+Vince Petaccio Thanks Vince! I think it could be like you say. I hope that one day soon we can simulate huge networks to understand the ones we have. I would bet that emotions are a residue of the evolutions that wouldn't be automatically in an artificial intelligence. Most of our emotions are strongly connected with the sexuality and other human relations that machines wouldn't need. Just a thinking.
Could this robot be reprogrammed to beat this video's editor senseless?
;)
I was just about to say the same thing. I can't _stand_ those panning zoomed in 5 second shots repeating over and over and over. Just show the whole goddamn thing in one shot, at least once, without that horrible backlit glare. I don't have a clue what that thing looks like, and as amazing as the engineering is, I don't really care to now because of how awful the editing was. Ruined a potentially amazing video...
Based on the comments so far, this actually seems to have scared a few people. Nice work Tom & co!
ha nice work indeed :)
This song is so powerful... It is like robots trying desperatly to sond like human but.. You can hear it's not played by human hand it is too perfect... even the solos are cold because of this perfection (in my humble view)
But indeed it is truly a beautiful piece and you can feel how hard they try to sound like us
This is like the musical equivalent of a TAS speed run
This is really very beautiful. When you embrace the variety of genres this draws from --polka-jazz, ambient jazz, influence of classic rock symphonies--and accept that music never has and never should have a proper definition, it's not hard to see that every gear and pump is just a vehicle for the musician's work.
These robots are able to play the instruments in no way a human possibly can. As eerie as it is, these robots can express their own style of music that we can't hear from the most talented musicians.
I imagine the Terminators will need entertainment at some point so this seems like a great start for that
this song, so beautiful and complex. such melody, many harmony
I was searching for this video for so long! I remember watching this video as a teen and it had a huge impact on my taste in music. Finally I can sleep in peace :)
That subtle overlaying at 3:45 is incredibly well thought out. Brilliant!!
People put far too much emphasis on the performance rather than composition, and yet they wonder why music isn't like how it used to be. I like Squarepusher's concept. Robots or humans can perform this, but what matters is the music.
Shame there aren't any people with 78 fingers though
Or can play 22 drums at once
Amazing! More of this, please!!
Love this - full of interesting musical patterns that are quite innovative.
This is brilliant, props to the guys behind this project.
Awesome, I really like the sound and feeling in the song.
This is of epic proportions. Truly, it is remarkable.
A lot more nuances than I expected. Beautiful. Took me way too long to discover this.
Intriguingly brilliant, can't get enough of this...saved to playlist!
...pretty funny how they got the heads of the robots to rock out too :)
yes
Yes, this is Square stuff that we love. Thanx 2 Tom & this nice robots.
This is astounding. It really reminded me of his older stuff, I am so very excited!!
This is absolutely BRILLIANT! Great art.
hahaha... what a legend.. always pushing things forward!
This album is absolutely incredible. Came across it as an occasional enjoyer of square pusher.
I just discovered it and had no idea about this concept and it being played by robots untill I tried to find more info on it just now
Great work, thank you for using SMC Products on your robot !
Awesome composition
That was brilliant. I wanna see more of the drummer and keyboardist but that robot guitarist was shredding it.
Sounds amazing great job
There's something very unsettling about this. I love it.
This is beautiful!
This. Is. AWESOME!
man this is so awesome i love it!
Wicked! I love Squarepusher!
this is dope!
Great that we get to see and hear a bit of good old 35 century jazz!
This is the Squarepusher I fell in love with!
This is fantastic!
this is so awesome!!;)
Truly incredible, I'm speechless.
love this piece of music! the robot thing is really cool as well. must have taken a shit load of mechanics, calibrating and programming to make this happen.
great work! =]
I love this.
love it.
absolutely unique!
Beautiful, beautiful robots.
Breathtaking composition from Squarepusher and next level engineering from Zima Machines.
Holy shit, why am I discovering this video only now? This is so cool.
I love this song. It's in 6/4 too!
This is amazing.
I absolutely need a metal cover of this song.
Awesome!
phenomenal
This changed my life.
Nice song!
I'm into this.
Is beautiful.
Animusic has brought to life.
The future holds many surprises ..
Amazing!!!
Amazing, work of genius.
lovely
Simply love Squarepusher.
The possibilities are endless on the production/creation front. It may still not sound "human" 100% but its close as hell ... and we are hearing stuff that has never been played live ... ever. this is amazing
Some of those time signatures are ridiculous
total effin game changer right here!
as a mechanical engineer i find this to be AWESOME, also the music is very good, sounding futuristic. But as a guitarist i think the human touch and feeling to the instrument is always better!
I'd love to hear Animals as Leaders play with this drummer.. heh xD
Jajaja! You read my mind, buddy.
so cool
Awesome! The middle bit sounds like John Mclaughlin!!
way too much focus on the guitar robot. I want to see the others!
The drummer looks chaotic dude. Fuckin love it lml
So this guy didn't want to just use GarageBand?
*****
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The machines are using PICKS. I think you're confused. You're welcome.
Can you be more specific? I want to make sure I'm not being pooped on here. Pretty sure it's not me.
Fuck people who use GarageBand. Boycott!
Why would anyone want to use Garageband?
I think this is scary, but also really amazing at the same time.
Awesome... +++++++++++++++++++
They took our jobs!
This is amazing.
Crazy!
I thought it was cool to see how mechanics can take a piece further then humanly possible.
Robots will steal your jobs - Artist style. 2014
There's only one Squarepusher. I still love his unique sound.
Love through Machine
It appeals for the moments we are engaged visually. Less so when I close my eyes. The achievement is amazing. You should share the programming interface for others to express themselves.
woaa superb
Eletronic music!
Nice song!
The beginning gives me Opeth vibes.
saying this is bad is like saying you know nothing about music. you not liking it is one thing, but saying it sucks is another.
Nope. I disagree. I think the machines are great, but I think the music sucks. It's way too repetitive.
Major McDoom This is why we can't have nice things.
Major McDoom did you even make it to the jazz mayhem part around the 2:50? seems to me like you only listened to the first minute and a half.
summitthescale Yes, I heard the whole thing. But there's enough repetition in the beginning to ruin the whole song for me. It was tiresome to listen to, and I wanted to rip my hair out. Music shouldn't do that to me. You're welcome to your opinion of course, but let me have mine. Not everyone's gonna have the same taste in music.
Major McDoom Haha
wow.... this is impressive.
Is this what the world is really coming to?
Omg this is just way to good.
satriani, vai, beck, move out of the way for
Squarepusher × Z-MACHINES
I hope I'm not the only one thinking this band could be programmed to play some SICK tech-death.
He didn't make them, he just borrowed them. Try to get someone who likes tech-death to borrow them.
nice!
how does this not have more views??
AWESOME!!!!!!!
Still amazing today
Buckethead approves this band!