[TheOtherHobbes]

Pat Metheny made an album called Orchestrion using an entire orchestra/band of real instruments played by solenoids over MIDI. Great music. (If you like Pat Metheny.)

It was an insane project. He even took it on tour.

The actual build was by Eric Singer and his team.

https://www.wired.com/2010/01/orchestrion/

[qkucy]

Although I missed seeing the Orchestrion tour in the 2010s, Pat still takes a subset of these instruments on tour with him. Both of his two previous tours, Side Eye and Dream Box had parts of the concert that had robotic percussion and wind instruments.

[hellotheretoday]

Aphex twin did a similar project with “computer controlled music”