Low-Tech Songs and Servo Drive 2009 Low-Tech Songs and Servo Drive Ongoing instalment of my performance lectures, Low-Tech Songs and Servo Drive features several robots: - Toutou the singing dog, refurbished to 2009 standards while retaining its charming personality. - Biting Machine 1, given as fodder two slightly wrong naked walking dolls named Georges and Gilbert. - Mofo, the humanoid, painstakingly playing the keyboard and dancing on stage. The show, which lasts approoximately 50 minutes, features a talk reflecting on some aspects of contemporary robotics. I play video extracts of Boston Dynamics Big Dog in action as well as the famous video of Asimo grounded after falling down a flight of stairs. I show the latter in a slightly smug manner as my robot Mofo can get itself back to a standing position if it falls (which it does quite often). I also set myself a 7 minute challenge, where I have to build from cardboard and scrap a musical instrument and sing an improvised song. The show ends with Mofo and me dancing the disco on Born to Be Alive, Patrick Hernandez' 1979 disco hit which I have sang live many times for the past 3 years. Photos by Charlotte Taylor, Ich Maschine Festival, Oldenburg Germany April 2009.