Compressorhead
Rock band made up of robot musicians / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Compressorhead was an animatronic robot band created by Berlin-based artist Frank Barnes and collaborators Markus Kolb, Stock Plum, and John and Rob Wright, formerly of NoMeansNo, as musical directors, songwriters and vocalists.
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Background information | |
Origin | Berlin, Germany |
Genres | Heavy metal, Punk rock |
Years active | 2013–2019 |
Members | Fingers, Bones, Stickboy, Junior, Mega-Wattson, Hellgå Tarr |
Website | robocross-machines |
The six "performers" in the band are all robots made from recycled parts, playing real electric and acoustic instruments and controlled via a MIDI sequencer.[1] The project initially debuted in 2013 with four robots (a guitarist, bassist, drummer and a small drummer's "assistant"), performing covers of famous rock songs. Two more robots (a vocalist and rhythm guitarist) were added to the group in 2017. In 2023, the entire band was seen in the movie Circus Maximus by rapper and producer Travis Scott. They would assist him while he would perform the song "Sirens" inside the stadium of Circus Maximus in Rome.