a different take on mechanized music

The Trons are a New Zealand-based rock band whose members are all robots. Here they are practicing:



And here they are in a music video:



According to their Wikipedia page, the Trons' vocals are produced by a tape loop with an actual tape deck, and the musicians are built mainly from old photocopier parts.

It's interesting that despite the absence of people in the band, the music is still so familiarly pop-y. See, for example, the 1-4-5 chord system in the first video -- a far cry from the music concrete and futurist ideals of other mechanized musicians.

I guess the next step would be to design a program that would write music for the Trons to play, and cut us out of the picture entirely. I kinda like the idea of robot minstrels -- at least until they turn on us.