So engineers and musicians can coexist

[alwaystheangel]

I fount this video.  I have no idea whether it's real or some fake.  But I really like the music it plays.  What do you guys think?  Becuase its created by a machine, does that mean its not music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE7RzU2CzYI

This is the caption about it:

"This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between The
Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of
Engineering at the University of Iowa. Amazingly, 97% of the machine's
components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of
Bancroft, Iowa. Yes farm equipment!

It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment,calibration,
and tuning before filming this video but as you can see it was well worth
the effort. This is almost unbelievable. See how all of the balls wind up in
catcher cones.

It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University
and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian."

[Kassaa]

That is so unbelievably awesome! Thanks for sharing, do you have any more video's of this thing, because it didn't look like it was finished?

[preludium]

Amazing, but it's a computer animation. This is evident at the first glance. I did some research using the text you provided and I found this site, where you can see more and buy a video of this: https://www.animusic.com/
I'm sure you can't build such a thing for real. The material tolerances would make it a mess. Even without that the calibration would be impossible. Multiple collisions with round objects! No way to get the deflection right in a real machine. But thanks for posting this!

[alwaystheangel]

That is so unbelievably awesome! Thanks for sharing, do you have any more video's of this thing, because it didn't look like it was finished?

I know. It's kind of disappointing that it stops mid way.  Yeah, there are some spots where I thought it looked animated which is why i just quoted the info.  Thanks for determining that its just a video.  Still spectacularly cool though!

[le_poete_mourant]

I know a lot of engineers who love music or are musicians themselves.  (I think there was a topic on it somewhere here...)

I think it's a cool idea, anyway.  Might be better if they used real musicians. 

[prometheus]

Sheesh, that people are so gullable that they believe it is a real machine...

Not only does it look like an animation. If you think for a second one would realise that one has to be very skeptical about such a machine. I mean, the whole idea of actually building one. Then, you have to launch all those lead balls from the same nuzzle and aim them with high accuracy and timing. And very quickly too.

Furthermore, I think some lead balls had to bounce off something first and then hit their target. And then they need to make a tone too.

Physically impossible.

Of course it is a nice video but I am amazed people just believe it is real. I just watched a part again, no way I can imagine anyone thinking that this is even possible.

[alwaystheangel]

Sheesh, that people are so gullable that they believe it is a real machine...

Not only does it look like an animation. If you think for a second one would realise that one has to be very skeptical about such a machine. I mean, the whole idea of actually building one. Then, you have to launch all those lead balls from the same nuzzle and aim them with high accuracy and timing. And very quickly too.

Furthermore, I think some lead balls had to bounce off something first and then hit their target. And then they need to make a tone too.

Physically impossible.

Of course it is a nice video but I am amazed people just believe it is real. I just watched a part again, no way I can imagine anyone thinking that this is even possible.

You are right, it is an animation.  But you do act terribly pompous at times.  I don't intend to be truly rude but that attitude of "I am better than thou" may get you into trouble sooner or later, and I have a feeling it will be sooner rather later. 

Just a point to ponder.