Musical Robots

PAM lies motionless on the dining room table, resembling a futuristic Plexiglas xylophone with a guitar head along the top. With the click of a mouse she comes to life, her mechanical fingers clamping down on the frets with superhuman speed. She plucks the strings faster and faster, creating a tune reminiscent of Middle Eastern music.

The inventors of PAM (the Poly-tangent Automatic Multi-monochord) smile proudly at this display. Troy Rogers (Grad '10), Scott Barton (Grad '10) and Steven Kemper (Grad '10) are all doctoral students in U.Va.'s composition and computer technologies program, but they're becoming more well-known as the guys who created the avant-garde music robot.

For more, go to http://www.uvamagazine.org/site/c.esJNK1PIJrH/b.3958929/?auid=3486672&knt...

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[artofnick]

@billm90 yes it's played in the duotonic tricontapooponimic brown note scale

[billm90]

musical?