Maker Faire Brussels 2023
Ponytrap
Home: Netherlands
Ponytrap performs industrial music on classical instruments with a 3 meter tall robotic drummer. “Ponytrap treats audiences to chamber music for the age of electricity, at once intimate and thundering, rigid and fluid, classical and industrial.”
http://www.ponytrapmusic.com/
Maker
Quentin Thomas-Oliver
Quentin Thomas-Oliver is a trained classical musician and an accidental maker. Together with his partner Hilary, they form the avant-garde industrial group Ponytrap. When they couldn’t find just the right drummer, they made one instead. Ponytrap’s percussion robot, MAX, was created, designed, built, and programmed by Quentin & Hilary using battery power and off-the-shelf parts.
What Inspired You to Make This?
Necessity is the mother of invention! We could never find the right drummer: one who wanted to play industrial music with classical musicians. Who could be as comfortable playing odd time signatures as well as straight ahead blast beats... we simply needed to solve a problem!
