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Musician

Craig Scott (b.1987, Aberdeen,Scotland) creates sound works for human and non-human performers. Using handmade analogue hardware, robotics and modified obsolete audio technology exploring the disquieting tension that exists between human and machine made music. this takes form across three streams: Animating instruments and domestic objects in the absence of/in collaboration with improvising human performers; Exploiting malfunction as artistic expression, harnessing the inherent instability of obsolete audio technologies through the precision digital control affords; Acousmatic music in which live instrumental recordings are dissected, transformed and blended with synthetic sources and field recordings, blurring perceptions of the organic/artificial. As a solo artist he is the recipient of the PSR Composers Fund, Jerwood/PRS Take 5, Francis Chagrin Composer Award, Gain Trust Award, Hope Scott Trust Award, ECF and PRSF grants

Album

Robotic Jazz Funk

By DJ I-Bot

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2005
Track listing: Molecular Funk 1; Molecular Funk 2; Molecular Funk 3; Molecular Funk 4; Molecular Funk 5; Molecular Funk 6

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Article: Album Review

DJ I-Bot and Proto-Jazz-One: Robotic Jazz Funk

Read "Robotic Jazz Funk" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
April 1, 2005

Now this may seem simply blasphemous: Robots performing jazz music? Well the scientists at Toyota and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have collaborated on this new release which features “DJ I-Bot, (the first random-access, analog robotic DJ system) and Proto-Jazz-One (a humanoid robot which plays various musical instruments.) This new CD should come as no surprise as today's ...