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clipping. – Tiny Desk Concert; Robots, Rubbish & Rap
clipping. – Tiny Desk Concert; Robots, Rubbish & Rap

The pot lid didn’t sound the way we wanted. “What about our Webby?” I suggested. The award statue’s metallic spring had just the right amount of wobble — a ride cymbal with a drip like Dalí. What you’re about to see has never been attempted at the Tiny Desk before: small, MIDI-triggered robots strike and vibrate glass bottles, coffee mugs, plastic wrap and a pizza box to make futuristic music out of the present’s refuse and rubbish. What band besides clipping. could pull this off?

Bionic and the Wires
Bionic and the Wires

What if creativity wasn’t just a human trait? What if mushrooms and plants could compose music and create visual art? For Manchester-based band Bionic and the Wires, this isn’t science fiction—it’s their daily reality, powered in part by the dadamachines automat toolkit.

a blog for dadamachines
a blog for dadamachines

Hello and welcome to the dadamachines blog! This space is dedicated to the latest happenings and creative explorations from the world of dadamachines, where we turn the real world into your instrument with our automat toolkit.