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I designed the 8-bit violin during last year’s instrument-a-day. I ended up donating violin 0x01 to Flux Factory’s fundraising auction. I made this one, pretty much identical to the first, for and with the help of violinist Patti Kilroy, who tried it out for this video. This is the first time she’s played the finished violin!
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Because I did accordion yesterday.
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A simple but rich-sounding PD patch for an installation proposal. Off-camera, I’m turning knobs on a MIDI keyboard to control the drones.
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Part of an old PC keyboard. It makes a nice rattling sound.
Violinist Patti Kilroy helped me build an 8-bit violin. No video today, but after the glue has had a few days to dry, she’ll try it out.
A 3d-printed version of those carved wooden croaking frogs.
Download the files to make your own here: www.thingiverse.com/thing:17385
A variation on yesterday’s bzzz. A bit better, but I still want more!
This is a not very successful experiment with translating live video into sound. I’m gonna keep messing with it, though, until it turns into something interesting.
Speak and Play! is a speech synthesizer for pianists. It has two parts: a score generator that turns written English text into musical scores, and a sample set (hurriedly constructed from my own voice) which, when used to play the scores, approximately recreates the original text.
Thanks to pianist Margaret Leng Tan for making Speak and Play! speak and play, and for coming up with the name!
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a slide whistle made from some scraps of acrylic tube and rod, and lubricated with olive oil.