Dadabots

Are Dadabots a band, a hackathon outfit, or a research laboratory? The Massachusetts-based "mathcore" duo engineer their own software, using neural networks to create imitation death metal-free jazz-skate punk that's as unpredictable as it is seductive. Using YouTube and Twitch, they've been generating and broadcasting sounds 24/7, taking inspiration from crate diggers and turntablists by rummaging through their lengthy AI interpretations to curate the weirdest and most wonderful hybrids. Perfectly in tune with the uncanny nature of our current reality, Dadabots make music that resides outside of genre, and outside of conventional taste completely.

Describing themselves as "musicians seduced by math", Massachusetts-based duo Dadabots puzzle out their own software to help them scrape ideas from across the sonic spectrum, uncannily mimicking their favorite artists and patchworking the results into genre-defying live mashups. Fascinated by the potential of AI and machine learning, Dadabots collaborated with UK beatboxer Reeps One to create 'Second Self', a device that simulates the performer's voice, allowing him to trade beats and bars back-and-forth.