For the next two weeks, I will be attending FSU band camp. The sad thing is that the day before I went, I saw an article where people created the first robotic clarinet player.
I mean come on!
Robots are suppose to be fine, not terminating us, nor our possible future jobs. Sure, I have to admit, robots came a long way since the first ones appeared and they will go a lot more. I think that I’m just in shock that someone can develop a machine that plays the clarinet.
I’m pissed.
The mouthpiece is a technological marvel and I applaud the team at NICTA and the University of NSW. The good thing is that the instrument isn’t perfect… yet.
"No, its not as good as a human- there are tricky things a human can do with a clarinet that it cant do, yet. We can actually step through three octaves of range, but it's very difficult to jump from a very low note to a high note in one jump, and there are some notes we have trouble jumping to and some that are difficult to play cold."
I’m still in shock.
Okay, so robots playing the violin is expected. After all, violins are one of the most popular instruments in the world. And you, just technically speaking, need an arm and a few fingers. No complex mouth to adjust the reed, or adjusting the air flow (not saying violins are easy to play, but it just make sense programming wise to let a robot play the violin).
And conducting. Conducting should be a joke to program into a developed robot. I mean, just wave a few arms right? But a clarinetist’s mouth and airstream?
Arghh….
Guess the next step is to play the oboe…
p.s. Go to Google News and type in “skynet”
-runiteking1
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cool :)
ReplyDeleteI don't think robotics can replace a accomplished musician anytime soon, nor are they meant to, but this is quite awesome.