Godfried-Willem Raes, thirty years of robotic musical instruments.

In the multiple activities of the Belgian composer Godfried-Willem Raes, there is to assemble more than thirty years bizarre and intriguing robotic musical instruments and / or automatic. From Pneumafono (powered with compressed air) to Rotomoton (consisting of drums), until I know, tuba automated, passing dozens of other combinations, the achievements of the interface mechanical and electronic musician to perform surgery on traditional instruments, providing them with prosthesis by the additional expressive possibilities, who performed in the newly formed M &M; Ensemble, a group in which some human performer coordinate with automated tools (m &m; stands for man & machines), in a complex live show. The site, while being devoid of sound samples, however, be purchased in the form of CDs, contains descriptions with riches of details on the technical construction of the instruments themselves, often complete with wiring diagrams and circuits. It is thus demonstrated an aptitude for knowledge sharing that mates well with the consciousness of a theatrical and performative use of traditional musical instruments.