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a lot of songs tend to sort of exist in
in the near future
i mean a song like everyday robots is
sort of science fiction where people
don't really use their hands anymore
and have grown huge fans
i don't know why i feel like that but
technology and melancholy are very
powerful together
we are everyday robots on our phones
in the process of getting home
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looking like standing stones
out there on our own
where everyday robots in control
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driving in
adjacent cars
i was really blown away by the nature of
this building
for someone who's quite sort of not
skeptical but sort of fearful of of the
transition we're going through this
place explains a lot of stuff in the
process
it's just so dedicated to the now isn't
it and the future
seems to be a sort of artistic kind of
soul at the center of this place
it's a great museum
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thank you very much
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if you notice there's someone slightly
different in the corner
all i wanna be
is washed out by the sea
no death star over
when i was invited to sing to an android
it's not the thing you get asked every
day
you have to get really close to not
believe that it might be a person
i suppose it's just that complete sense
of otherness isn't it
for us to really engage with them they
have to look like us
you know the more they look like us the
more sort of
odd the whole experience becomes
but there's another one there's a
newscaster at the back of the hall and
the perspective that they've given you
to
experience it's just this small window
i loved as a kid those sort of victorian
um peep shows that you know with the the
endless perspective and you you know
there's little theaters the
technological and sort of aesthetic and
philosophic evolution from that child's
perspective theater
to that is quite
extraordinary
i love new technology i mean i love why
i love coming to japan i mean as a
musician first thing you do when you get
here is just go to a music shop and buy
the latest sort of gadget
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it's always been
slightly a sort of a head in that in
that way
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as always i feel it's terrifying and
very inspiring which is
really how i feel about technology
i might write a song about singing to an
android now
each experience informs the next and
that's what this place is really about
it's really about that interaction
between technology and humans and so
i think it's a natural place for me to
come to
me
all i've ever done is take
would you love me all the same
would you love me though it's all
where's
they say
it's no game