Damon Albarn played a gig for Japanese robots
29 July 2014, 11:41
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Luke Morgan Britton
Blur frontman Damon Albarn isn’t adverse to blurring the line of reality. Gorillaz were the world’s first “virtual” band, after all. But now he’s done something very few others have: performing a gig live for actual Japanese robots.
The solo set took place at Japan’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation earlier this week, with two androids in attendance. One, a lifelike female called Otonaroid®, reportedly “hummed along to the lyrics, and her expressions seemed to change when the melody would take a sad turn or during up-tempo parts of the songs”.
You can see photos from the event below, via The Creator’s Project/Takanori Kuroda:
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