MARIE: a virtuosic band of robots made by and for musicians

A project in Virginia, MN by EMMI
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Build a band of portable, virtuosic, futuristic music robots. Create new music for them and a human duo. Tour the world. Rock out.
Backers: 127
Average Pledge Per Backer: $64

Funded: $8,165 of $7,000
Dates: Nov 30th -> Jan 3rd (35 days)
Project By: EMMI
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Latest News

Exclusive audio tracks for backers

October 10th - via: kickstarter.com
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read. (Read More)

Surveys, rewards, and EMMI Space party

July 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Greetings all, After a fantastic couple of tours, EMMI has been busily making updates and modifications to the robots, responding to the valuable lessons we learned through a good thorough road testing of the new equipment. EAR Duo has made their... (Read More)

Amsterdam!

April 9th - via: kickstarter.com
It's been a wild, whirlwind few weeks for all of us, and now that the robots have safely arrived in Amsterdam, we finally have a chance for a long overdue update. Where to begin? Shortly before our tour of the Northeast, EMMI realized that our... (Read More)

MARIE takes shape

March 9th - via: kickstarter.com
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Build, compose, rehearse, tour!

January 21st - via: kickstarter.com
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Funded!

December 31st - via: kickstarter.com
What an amazing couple of days. Yesterday's press has put our project all over the web. To top it off, we're honored that the good folks here at Kickstarter have made MARIE the Project of the Day today! But the biggest news of course is that, thanks... (Read More)

More online press coverage of MARIE!

December 30th - via: kickstarter.com
We were excited about the blog coverage MARIE has recently gotten when we posted the last update, but we woke up today to some more wonderful surprises. Peter Kirn wrote a very positive and supportive feature on Create Digital Music, and Hugh Hart... (Read More)

MARIE blog coverage

December 28th - via: kickstarter.com
We've received some nice blog coverage recently for this project. Backers Electrotap, creators of fine hardware such as the Teabox and software such as Tap.Tools made a nice post in support of MARIE on their site. And STEIM, a leading international... (Read More)

1 week to go!

December 27th - via: kickstarter.com
We're thrilled by the response our campaign has received so far. With one week left to go in our campaign, 75 friends, old and new, have pushed us over the $6000 mark. We're 86% of the way to our minimum goal! Words fail to express the depth of our... (Read More)

EMMI and EcoSono

December 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
EMMI's piece Drum Circle will be featured on the upcoming EcoSono DVD release Agents against agency. Drum Circle marries natural and human-crafted beauty in an integrated scene/performance/ritual that invites the listener-viewer to meditate on... (Read More)

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