Okay, normally I ignore complaints about machines taking our jobs...

[DarkTirade]

but now they're invading MY turf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2JChnwv2Ws

[no name no slogan]

1. Eh, I find that performance "mechanical" at best

nt

[DarkTirade]

2. Yeah, but when the chips are down they'll give a solid-state performance.

[DarkTirade]

3. Kicked so people can see the danger robots pose to hardworking human beings everywhere.

[Ptah]

4. Not to worry. We have harnessed the machines with music.

In the shop the other day

[DarkTirade]

5. But then they'll learn it and make their own successful forms of music!

And then the robots will not only steal our music gigs, but they'll also steal our women! (except the robot drummers and bass players. They'll still be losers.)

[Ptah]

6. The robots are merely instruments in our orchestra.

[DarkTirade]

7. You say that now.

But what happens when they learn how to learn? :scared:

[Ptah]

8. Relax, son. It's going to be ok.

[DarkTirade]

9. ...

[ThomCat]

10. They sound too mechanical.

The rhythm is too uniform. I don't think real musicians have anything to worry about. It'll be a while before robots have the tiny inconsistencies, flexibility to use and change techniques, or especially the ability to improvise that people put into their music.

[DarkTirade]

11. The irony there is that it would be easy to do such a thing

either by programming in a way of modifying it on the fly in a slightly random but still ordered way, or by having a human record the rhythms and whatnot ahead of time. :P

Which is totally what I'd do if I was ever crazy enough to do something like that.