Beats by a robot and a human for humans and robots.
The DJ I, Robot Sound System first came online the same year as Sajeta, in the studio of artist Chris Csíkszentmihályi. Csíkszentmihályi saw the first digital DJ controllers coming to market, but didn’t know a single DJ who didn’t love vinyl. He joked that rather than replace vinyl, we should replace DJs: they’re arrogant, sleep late, are addicted to cocaine, and spread STDs. After some ghetto engineering the world’s first robot DJ was touring: its three random-access turntables debuted at Transmediale, going on to shake stages from Nagoya, Japan, to warehouse parties in Bushwick, WMF in Berlin, and the ICA London. Mothballed since 2003, the robot rises again like a Terminator to play at Sajeta for the first time in over twenty years, now sporting the latest in model-based feed-forward variable-frequency field-oriented BLDC control.
Will this be the dub singularity?