[norman bates]

In anticipation of Squarepusher's new idm album Damogen Furies I've discovered a very interesting project of his from last year. He composed an album for the japanese Robot band Z-Machines called Music for Robots which really managed to impress me. I didn't believe that robots could be able to perform emotionally engaging music before but this pretty much convinced me:

What do you think of it?

I like the idea, Pat Metheny did a similar thing in his Orchestrion album.
By the way, if you think about it, it's not too different from what composers like Conlon Nancarrow and Antheil did