Music for Robots

In the Jerry Sanders robot competition at the University of Illinois, teams from universities around the world build robots and bring them to Champaign/Urbana to compete on an obstacle course. It's like a less violent version of Robot Wars. Great fun! This year, the robots had to climb ramps, pick up hoola hoops & frisbees, and carry them to goals for points. This event is part of U of I's Engineering Open House.



Well, okay, it's not ALWAYS less violent than Robot Wars...

To see more pics of the 2007 competition, go here and click on "Multimedia".



The Tunes

I did a couple of acid techno tunes for background music for the event:





Acid for Blood

This one's about Ash from the movie "Alien".

Acid for Blood (4794K mp3)

ACID, get it?! The alien has acid for blood, and the musical style is called Acid! Heh heh.

Well, I thought it was amusing.





Robbie

About Robbie from "Forbidden Planet".

Robbie (3570K mp3)




Gort

This one's about Gort from "The Day The Earth Stood Still". My Techno tune does variations on the Gort theme from Bernard Herrman's EXCELLENT score.

Gort (5187K mp3)




For future Engineering Open Houses, I plan to add a couple more, like maybe one about "Terminator" and one about Nomad from the Star Trek episode "The Changeling".