Ponytrap
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.”
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.