As seen on BoingBoing:

"Tonight at the high-falutin' Julliard School: the RoboRecitcal, an all-automata concert performance by a player piano (old school) and GuitarBot (new school). GuitarBot, "a stringed instrument that is designed to extend -- not simply duplicate -- the capabilities of a human musician," was created in 2000 by LEMUR (the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots... no joke) and looks like it was designed by Dan Flavin. It will play a program featuring Bach, Mozart, and compositions by J. Brendan Anderson, the Julliard undergrad who coordinated the recital."

Mari Kimura, a faculty member in music technology at Juilliard, puts this event into context: "Are the machines replacing humans? Why is this concert being held at Juilliard, the pinnacle of performing arts studies? I believe this concert is happening exactly where it should: where we are continuing our musical tradition. Long before the last century, composers including Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven were versatile musicians who performed, improvised, and utilized the latest musical technology available in their time. In his use of technology on his RoboRecital, Brendan is merely following tradition..."