orchestra made from old electronic equipment
in an attempt to revive old computer equipment and retired brother electronics, director chris cairns re-engineered a collection of photocopiers, modems, scanners, fax machines and hard drives to build a MIDI orchestration. with all programming done by is this good?, the production take cues from bd594’s computer orchestra which covered ‘house of the rising sun’ whereby printers and other obsolete technology become instruments which perform bob dylan’s ‘the times they are a-changin’.
brother printer orchestra behind the scenes + ‘the times they are a-changin’ orchestra video courtesy of brotherEU
old hard drives, fax machines, routers and scanners being used for production
large fax machines
the lyrics to ‘the times they are a-changin” being printed out
production process
internal components
circuitry done by is this good?
sound engineering