Japanese Singing Robots and Androids

I wrote about Hatsune Miku on Lew Rockwell a while back and how these sorts of androids or robots were changing the music world and our society. Some people scoffed until I informed them that, for example, a few music videos "by" Hatsune Miku have over 10,000,000 views on Japan's Nico Nico Douga.

Japan’s latest robot monster, a pop-singing robot-diva dubbed the HRP-4C

Now Bloomberg gets in on the action reporting from Pop Fi:

Robots are our future. If the Japanese have taught us anything, it's that one day we'll all be living alongside, working alongside, and possibly sleeping with sentient machines with the power to rend us in twain with the whir of a servomotor and the gush of pneumatic fluid. I'm slowly growing to accept this new reality thanks to Japan's latest robot monster, a pop-singing robot-diva dubbed the HRP-4C, which debuted at CEATAC Japan. 

I think this is pretty creepy (I mean, that people actually like this). You decide. Watch the video:



Forgive me for being crass, but these things remind me of Dutch Wives and I cannot stop thinking that the people who make these things aren't thinking the same thing.

Windows XP Errors put to Music. Great Music!

Some young people in Japan are making the most fantastic music using the most unique new ideas. Here's one from Japan's version of YouTube (called Nico Nico Douga which translates to: "Smile, Smile Moving Picture."

It is a fantastic mix and design of Windows XP Errors put to music. Enjoy!



In Japan, kids are coming up with some of the most amazing computer generated music. Here's one that is sang by the Vocaloid (a singing android) named Hatsune Miku. I wrote about what Hatsune Miku is here.




This one from my friend Lila Cleary

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