Moritz Simon Geist is a media artist and self-styled robotic musician, and he's about to release his debut EP (Oct) followed by his LP (Nov) via Kompakt. According to Geist, the album is the world's first techno record played entirely by self-made futuristic robots.
His whole concept revolves around Robotic Electronic Music (R.E.M) and on the forthcoming 4-track EP The Material Turn, Moritz turns materials into sounds.
Watch his video for the EP’s opener 'Entropy' to see Geist demonstrate his futuristic approach to making electronic music with robots.
Geist, who also teaches on the progression of technology and society at the NYU Berlin, goes behind the scenes of the music video showing off all of his wonderful robotic creations this video...