Tags: artbot, automata, Clara 2.0, electronic music, musical robot, robot thereminist, science and art, theremin, Uncanny Valley
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Named in honour of the original theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore, Clara 2.0 is a robot doll who can play the theremin live. I call her the ‘polite robot thereminist’ as she listens to a line from another player and moves her dolly arm to bring her own theremin in perfect tune.
Sarah Angliss is a musician, engineer and writer.
Her band Spacedog mixes theremin, vocals and laptops with Sarah's home-spun musical robots.
Uncanny Valley - a new live show from Spacedog, Prof. Elemental and assorted robot friends, Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, 5 May 2010.
Electricity and Ghosts - live performance at Battersea Power Station (date tbc)
Spacedog play Hastings Museum and F-ish Gallery, 20 March 2010
Electricity and Ghosts preview at the Kinetica Art Fair, 5-7 February 2010
Shift Run Stop - podcast interview, January 2010 Demo at Dorkbot Recording live onto a wax cylinder, using an original Edison phonograph, Catalyst Club, Brighton, 10 December 2009 Clog dancing as early noise music, with Caroline Radcliffe, Central, London, 4 December 2009 Robin Ince's Darwin birthday bash Transfer New multimodal effect, in collaboration with Punchdrunk
Sleigh ride (Troika), from Prokovief's Lieutenant Kije, played on the robotic bells
This bell rig is regularly used in live performance - this is the Mk III version, built December 2008.