Geoff Morris

Moritz Simon Geist has built a (giant) robotic version of the classic Roland 808 drum machine using Max for Live, Arduino, and a heap of solenoids.

From his website: "I see hacking – in this case music hacking – as a form of anti-passiveness, through which I think the individual can have an impact on his or her environment, status and state of mind...Within the last five years the rise of Arduino, Ableton Live and Max/MSP has made this much easier."

Videos, pictures, and technical details of Geist's MR-808 project

MR-808 - mechanic drum robot from Sonic Robots on Vimeo.


Let's get physical: MR-808 is the first drum robot that reproduces the drum sounds of the 80s - in the real world. 
The robot installation MR-808 is a replica of the famous 1980s electronic drum machine TR-808 – with robots playing the drum sounds! I (Moritz Simon Geist) have been playing electronic music for several years now, and at some place I was bored of the electronic music production process. With binary logic, everything is possible. 
So I decided to go back to the roots of sound generation – the physical sound generation – but combine it with the electronic music structure we like so much. 
I liked the idea so much, that I couldn’t stop building my own drum robots, and ended up replacing all the electronic sounds of a whole drum computer, placed in a 3,3 x 1,7m² case. I am very proud to present the “MR-808” – a mechanic replica of the famous 1980s electronic drum machine TR-808! 
Read on: http://sonicrobots.com/mr808-eng/ 
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MR-808 - mechanic sound robot (all drums, miced) 
A mechanic relay controlled via arduino (bass sound) 
Gameboy - Arduinoboy hardware (8 bit chiptune sound) 
Everything was programmed in Ableton, only equing and compression has been applied. 
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Filmography: David Campesino 
Music: Moritz Simon Geist

MR-808 - mechanic drum robot

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It is a fully working prototype through the combination of using Arduino and a XBee wireless network all controlled using Max/MSP. Using Max, we access the Last.fm API and using Applescript (again, in Max), we get Spotify to play the music. 

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A microcontroller transmits sensor information from the CRT to a computer. The data is interpreted and used to control multiple sound synthesis techniques all within Max. The resulting audio signal from Max is amplified and used to drive the yoke of the CRT creating the visualizations. 

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