One British team of musicians has attempted an experiment to measure how social networking popularity can raise and crush a musician's self esteem.
According to Daily Tech, pop artists Ziggy Campbell, Kirby and Tommy Pheron have built a robot that reacts to fan response through Facebook and Myspace. When the robot receives positive comments and more fans flocking to its pages, it registers pleasure, and depression when it thinks that its being ignored.
Called Cybraphon, the robot reportedly creates its music from an Indian Shuti box and other electronic noises that transmit as happier tunes when it feels social networking love and depressing, mournful sounds when it thinks fans are not paying attention.
'We modelled it on an insecure, egotistical band. Bands by their very nature tend to be volatile and prone to implosion,' Kirby tells the news provider, and jokes, 'I'm surprised that the Cybraphon...hasn't hit self destruct yet.'
Cybraphon is effective at hitting online social networks, but can not yet stream its music online and viewers can only hear its mastery through online demo videos.
According to Daily Tech, pop artists Ziggy Campbell, Kirby and Tommy Pheron have built a robot that reacts to fan response through Facebook and Myspace. When the robot receives positive comments and more fans flocking to its pages, it registers pleasure, and depression when it thinks that its being ignored.
Called Cybraphon, the robot reportedly creates its music from an Indian Shuti box and other electronic noises that transmit as happier tunes when it feels social networking love and depressing, mournful sounds when it thinks fans are not paying attention.
'We modelled it on an insecure, egotistical band. Bands by their very nature tend to be volatile and prone to implosion,' Kirby tells the news provider, and jokes, 'I'm surprised that the Cybraphon...hasn't hit self destruct yet.'
Cybraphon is effective at hitting online social networks, but can not yet stream its music online and viewers can only hear its mastery through online demo videos.
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