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Ballet Mecanique at the National Gallery of Art

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Uploaded by on Jul 2, 2006

Premiere of all-robotic version of George Antheil's infamous Dada piece for 16 player pianos and percussion orchestra. Features new robotic instruments from LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (http://lemurbots.org)

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  • The recording had more "space" in it than others I have heard, making it easier to appreciate the various voices in the piece. On caveat, I don't feel the propellors of the fan units created as powerful a sound as the airplane propellors that were originally intended.

  • @satiricalfarce : Unfortunately, the museum would not allow us to bring in the three MIDI airplanes required for this.

  • i want these guys to play my wedding!

  • We'd be happy to!

  • Can you also do organ pipes or vibraphones?

  • Yes

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  • Antheil , the Father of industrial music.

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  • I want this played at my funeral!

    No sitting around and moping for me: I want peoples' hair to stand on end!

  • I saw one of these performances. Yes we were startled - it just began playing full tilt with no warning! I loved it (the entire Dada exhibit was superb)... even bought the CD. It sounds like noise at first but after listening to it a few times to give it a chance, it actually begins to reveal structure, if not beauty.

  • Love that the audience was startled when the piece started- nice to see it still has just a bit of shock value.

  • Thank you for posting this, I remember experiencing this exhibit and this piece.

  • creepy to see those instruments playing themselves, especially in some of the sections of this piece. but very cool piece!

  • I enjoyed that. Dada, Now!

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