Baby robot

Radiohead held an online contest to remix their song "Nude". James Houston, a student at Glasgow School of Arts, missed the deadline but aced the contest with this lovely video reinterpretation that's become so popular that Radiohead heard about it and linked to it on their site.

I like Radiohead, old computers and cleverness, so of course I love it. But it also makes me feel like weeping, which is odd. I think that Houston may have explained my reaction when he says:

I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they’re trying their best to do something that they’re not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.

I find that incredibly touching. As a person with autistic tendencies, I feel an enormous sympathy for babies, animals and machines. This is a song I wrote a few years ago, a lullaby for newborn robots:
Download baby_robot.mp3

(image: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/14/hacked-robot-babytoy.html)

Comments

[Ioana]

That lullaby of yours is very nice indeed.. although i find it has something 'awakening' in it.. in my vision, it is a perfect song about the delight of a baby robot cuddling a kitten:)

[Jeffre Jackson]

You're right. In fact, I looked back at the original file and it was called "Birth of a new robot".