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    "The picnic near the lakeside in Chicago is the start of lazy afternoon, early one October. We begin with a scene one meter wide, which we view from just one meter away. Now every ten seconds we will look from ten times farther away and our field of view will be ten times wider. This square is ten meters wide, and in ten seconds, the next square will be ten times as wide. Our picture will center on the picnicers, even after they've been lost to sight." 00:00

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    Dishes, dishes, dishes, three times a day. And breathes there a housewife with soul so dead who sometimes to herself has not said, "why can't something be done to relieve the monotony of this everyday kitchen chore!" Presenting a show from Feb 2, 2011, recorded live at the Green Bean, Greensboro, NC. Now housewives, pay attention. There's a lot to learn here. There's a lot to dance to here. Best in show: 39:46 to the end. Groovy. And keeps

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    I am happy to present you with the next installment of Modern Robot movies. This is our 16th show, recorded January 19, 2011, at Greensboro's Green Bean. What you are hearing in this movie is a live show performed by Ben Singer (keys), Kyle Poehling (drums), and Nicholas Stott (guitar). The show was performed as accompaniment for the movie you are seeing, which we projected at the show. The music is entirely improvised—we didn't arrange themes

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    Nov 9, 2010, Modern Robot recorded a live show at our local and obliging coffee shop, The Green Bean, playing a improvised score to a an edited version of three movies. The theme: machines. Kyle Poehling played drums and Ben Singer played keyboards. Outside of editing the videos, we did not prepare music for the show. Kyle, in fact, had never seen the movies. What you see in this video is the same thing we were watching at the show, with none

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    "Mary, it takes more than intellect to be a musician. Put your soul into it." (9:12) In 1962, Herk Harvey was working for an industrial and educational film production company. After passing an abandoned amusement park somewhere in Utah, he had the idea for a movie. "Carnival of Souls" is the result. It's about as indie and low-budget as you can get. We played a live show to this movie October 20th, 2010, at the Green Bean. The show itself

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