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  • AboutModern Robot is a band from Greensboro, North Carolina. After releasing a web album of original music, we started to play shows accompanied by movies. Pretty soon, we got distracted by the movies, and started watching them during shows. Our shows now are based on movies, and improvising sound tracks to them. We assemble shows from public domain and creative commons films. These are often ephemeral films: films created for sales reps, instructional films, industry films, and the like. We’ve also done feature films that have made their way into the public domain, and silent films. We perform a live show to the films, improvising the music. As a second step, we take a recording of the live show and put it back into the movie that was shown. At this point, we’ll add in pieces of the original sound track of the movie, giving the music a found-sound feel, and often creating themes not present in the live show. Sometimes we can even work some of the original music in with the show, even though we couldn’t hear that part of the movie while we played it. These are the movies you see posted on this site. Each is…
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Category: Videos

Living Dead at Edinburgh Fringe

30 Sep 2017

Fringe Zombies

25 Sep 2017

Show 51: Crossroads at Edinburgh

15 Aug 2015

Show 50: Crossroads at the Crown

12 Jun 2015

Presenting: The Scrub Tool

24 Jun 2014

Show 48: At the Crossroads

3 May 2014 Comments: 0

Show 43: The Fifth Dimension

4 Nov 2013 Comments: 0

Show 20: Journey to the Moon

22 Mar 2011 Comments: 0

Show 17: Modern Appliances

13 Feb 2011 Comments: 0

Show 16: Sound Reproduction

31 Jan 2011 Comments: 0

Show 12: The Age of Machines

17 Nov 2010 Comments: 0

Show 9: Carnival of Souls

31 Oct 2010 Comments: 0

Show 8: Plan 9 From Outer Space

23 Sep 2010 Comments: 0
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