Gravity Harps: Pendulum-Driven Robotic Instruments

Music Robotics
Gravity Harps: Pendulum-Driven Robotic Instruments


Andy Cavatora and friends built these gravity harps for a Björk concert currently playing in the U.K. It looks like each pendulum has a servo-controlled rotation system that changes what note gets plunked at the pendulum’s nadir.

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