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Watch An Orchestra Of Drones Play Music On Real Instruments

by Nick Ward
May 18, 2016
in Editorial, EDM News, Featured, Tech
Watch An Orchestra Of Drones Play Music On Real Instruments

An even 100 drones took to the air over Tornesch, Germany, on the evening of Nov. 4, 2015, to create Drone 100. The elaborate marriage of music and light and flight was the result of months of effort by Intel Corp. engineers and Ars Electronica FutureLab digital artists. Their sky-filling artwork was accompanied by an orchestra on the ground and fully enabled by Intel-powered PCs. All their efforts were rewarded with a Guinness World Records citing for the “most unmanned aerial vehicles airborne simultaneously.” (Credit: Intel Corporation)

This past weekend we explored how drones could soon replace pyrotechnics at festivals in the near future, and now, they could even be helping the artists we go to watch.

In an effort to showcase how far drone technology has come, Daniel Mellinger and Alex Kushleyev, two bright engineers from Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, created an orchestra of drones that could perform on live instruments.

Each small drone controls a string, a drum, a keyboard key and any other singular facet of a given instrument. By themselves, they aren’t much, but when controlled in sync with the others, these drones create real music.

While the initial performance is very basic and lacks true musical depth, it still marks an important milestone in what drones can do in our everyday lives. This video, shot in 2012, is already small in comparison to what drones can do in today’s ever expanding world.

As drones grow in intelligence and precision, how long will it be until we start to see drone musical performances? Can they really reach a level that could captivate us in the same emotional manner human performers do?

Check out the video below for an idea of the potential musical drones hold for the future:

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