Blur frontman Damon Albarn performs for robots, gets response

29 July 2014 - 11:57 By Nikita Ramkissoon
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Damon Albarn fro Gorrilaz
Damon Albarn fro Gorrilaz
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Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn performed for a crowd that included robots at a show last week in Japan, according to reports.

The singer played an intimate gig at Japan's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation to a small crowd of 50, which included two robots - the 'life-like' female Otonaroid® and the 'more abstract' Telenoid®, reports The Creators Project.

The short set saw Albarn performing the title track from his debut solo album Everyday Robots as well as Hollow Ponds and Blur's Strange News From Another Star and Out of Time.

According to report, one of the robots "moved her body in time with Albarn's performance.

“She 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."

Albarn commented to NME: "It was interesting performing alongside the androids. While they definitely look artificial up close, when seen at a distance they look like normal people.

“They're fake, but they're also real. I mean, they're definitely there. But, I don't think the fact that robots are completely alien will ever change. So in that sense technology is perhaps a bit melancholic."

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